Can you correct this sentence?

Question

Bills are printed in sheets of thirty-two, (four columns across, eight rows down.

A. no change

B. thirty-two (four columns across, eight rows down).

C. thirty-two; four columns across; eight rows down.

D. thirty-two; (four columns across, eight rows down).

Answer 1

The sentence has to make sense without the material in parentheses, or else that material won't add anything. For this reason, A and D don't work. In both cases you're ending the sentence with punctuation other than the period.

You also want to use a semicolon only to join independent clauses. That's not what you have with C.

Only B remains. That's your answer.