re: I am surprised at how many people do not understand basic math.

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This is totally understandable if you have ever seen a young person working in a retail outlet struggle to make change.

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This happened to me before UPC's on products became a thing. I was in a grocery store and they had a sale on cans of peas with them being 3 cans for $1.

I only get 2 and go to the register and the teenage gal actually asked me if I wanted to go get one more and I said no. She then said, "I don't know what to charge you if you only get 2".

So I tell her, charge me $.34 for one can and $.33 for the second can and it blew her mind because she couldn't understand how that worked. So I tried to tell her with 3 cans for $1 the store is charging $.33 1/3 a can but there are no 1/3's of a cent.

She just shrugged and rang it up------like she would be fired over a damn penny.