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This tag applies to questions that deal with grammatical number: “singular” versus “plural”, and (rarely) also “dual”.
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Plural form after "with" (common property of multiple objects)
Samples is plural, therefore the predicate of the sentence should be plural as well. The fact that the property is the same for all items is inconsequential.
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'One out of three people thinks' or 'one out of three people think'?
Because you are referring to a solitary member of a group for the subject, the singular conjugation of "to think" is correct. In this case the reference to the group of three is adjectival to the one …