In the following sentence,
"Signal strength was 20, 30, 40 dB at floors 1,2,3 respectively."
Should I use was or were?
Should the unit dB be used just for the last input of the list or every input?
Should I use floors or floor?
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"Signal strength was 20, 30, 40 dB at floors 1,2,3 respectively."
Should I use was or were?
Should the unit dB be used just for the last input of the list or every input?
Should I use floors or floor?
In my opinion, for the first answer "was" is correct.
For the second one, dB should be used for each input. The way you have written is also correct, i feel.
Floors is correct because you are mentioning three floors.
"Signal strength was at 20db, 30db, 40db for their respective floors 1, 2 and 3."
Works in a general sense. If you were writing a technical paper/manual I would advise relating each floor to its db level.
"Single strength on floor 1 was 20db, floor 2 was 30db, and floor 3 was 40db."
This sacrifices brevity for clarity for the reader.