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I am currently writing my cover letter for an application.

In the opening sentence I want to put emphasis on the most important fact about my profile: That I am a statistician and that this is my passion. I am applying in the area of financial statistics. I thought about using the classical "I am writing to apply", but instead somehow a punchline, something like:

Statistics and solving quantitatitve problems is my passion. I studied .....

I am not sure about this sentence, first is this a good idea? Second is the "is" correct? Or is an "are" necessary?

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  • The first sentence seems OK to me, except for spelling 'quantitative' as 'quantitatitve'. Whether to use is or are depends on whether you conceive of "Statistics and solving quantitative problems" as a single area of interest or two separate areas. I think both variants are fine. If it was up to me, I'd use is. -- Incidentally, you closed this question after just FOUR MINUTES. Why? – Erik Kowal May 02 '14 at 08:56
  • The first question is subjective, open-ended, and off-topic. The second is a duplicate. Would you say "My brother and my sister is my family?" – RegDwigнt May 02 '14 at 08:57
  • OK... I see that someone else closed the question. – Erik Kowal May 02 '14 at 08:58

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