[Grammar] The table in your report shows that last week sales figure is (or was)..

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DANAU

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I wrote the sentence below.

"The table in your report shows that last week sales figure is (or was) $100,000"

The figures in the table are current but those are past sales records. In such a situation, should I be using
present or past tense?
 

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It doesn't matter. I'd use 'was', but 'is' isn't wrong.
 

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"The table in your report shows that last week's sales figure is (or was) $100,000."
See above. Every sentence requires one closing punctuation mark.
 
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