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re: I am surprised at how many people do not understand basic math.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 11:08 am to chinhoyang
Posted on 6/10/21 at 11:08 am to chinhoyang
quote:
So, Sam, one of Joe's living children, calls the office, mad as hell. "Why do Mary's kids each get 1/160th of the property but I only get 1/40th?"
After a long discussion, he still does not understand that 1/40 is a larger number than 1/160.
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Posted on 6/10/21 at 11:16 am to LSUTigerFan247
You can't really blame that gal for that take. She simply doesn't have that many fingers and toes to do higher math.
This post was edited on 6/10/21 at 11:17 am
Posted on 6/10/21 at 11:23 am to chinhoyang
quote:Many moons ago
Didn't you used to have Adriana Lima on your profile pic?
Posted on 6/10/21 at 11:24 am to chinhoyang
quote:
Why do Mary's kids each get 1/160th of the property but I only get 1/40th?"
Most people are lost when fractions and percentages pop up in the equation and you have to explain it to them like a little kid.
Tell this idiot that you baked 2 exact same size pies and cut one up in 40 pieces and the other up in 160 pieces, then ask this clown if he'd rather eat 1/40th of a pie or 1/160th of a pie then maybe he'd grasp the concept.
If not, give him 1/160th and pocket the rest as legal fees.
Oh, and unless you're talking about some REAL SERIOUS money, that is not a life changing windfall. Maybe a run to the store for a six pack, bread and cold cuts.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 12:15 pm to dj30
Use an abacus.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 12:59 pm to LSUtoBOOT
Posted on 6/10/21 at 1:05 pm to chinhoyang
Math is racist. Stop trying to hold everyone to your white supremacy standards.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 1:46 pm to ElderTiger
quote:
This is totally understandable if you have ever seen a young person working in a retail outlet struggle to make change.
Have you ever had something cost $5.50 (for example) and you give the cashier $11.00 so that you get back a $5 bill and the change instead of four $1 bills and change? 75% of the time, their head explodes, they stared at your blankly and then had back the $1 bill saying you gave too much without understand what you are trying to do.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 1:50 pm to chinhoyang
A friend of mine was fired from being a teacher at a private school because she was a science teacher - however when her class was on measurements - she realized the kids (older middle schoolers) could not add/subtract/multiply, etc
So she taught them that - and was fired
Crazy
So she taught them that - and was fired
Crazy
Posted on 6/10/21 at 1:55 pm to tiggerthetooth
quote:
I use to tutor math and you'd be shocked.
After working at the LSU Math Lab, I was depressed to learn how many Freshman don’t know Algebra.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 2:03 pm to jfw3535
quote:
Have you ever had something cost $5.50 (for example) and you give the cashier $11.00 so that you get back a $5 bill and the change instead of four $1 bills and change? 75% of the time, their head explodes, they stared at your blankly
Yeah. That happened a lot in the 90’s. They probably looking at you crazy bc you paying with cash.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 2:11 pm to chinhoyang
Reminds me of the old deal with a 1/3 pound burger. Back in the late 80s IIRC. Think maybe Wendy’s or BK did it as a competitor to McD’s quarter pounder. They ended up discontinuing it because consumers thought 1/3 was less than 1/4.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 2:15 pm to chinhoyang
quote:
I am surprised at how many people do not understand basic math
The left wing is well known for ruining everything they touch.
The left wing has controlled our education system for decades now.
Hence, many people no longer understand basic math
Posted on 6/10/21 at 3:12 pm to LSUTigerFan247
This is a math AND economics fail.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 4:06 pm to chinhoyang
As long as our public monies keep going into the same old broken down system, things will never ADD UP.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 4:18 pm to SLafourche07
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SLafourche07
Bruh, if he wants 1/160, give him 1/160
Then ask him what he wants you to do with what's left over. Maybe he'll understand it then.
Or just give him an actual number. He will be getting 160 a month and the grand kids will be getting 40.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 5:06 pm to chinhoyang
How much is the property even worth?
Posted on 6/10/21 at 5:23 pm to LSUTigerFan247
What is even worse than that is the Mara Gray of the New York Times Editorial Board went on NBC News and confirmed it was true.
Brian Williams Interview
Posted on 6/10/21 at 5:30 pm to Rick9Plus
quote:
How much is the property even worth?
One hundred and sixty one hundred and sixtieths.
Posted on 6/10/21 at 5:48 pm to ElderTiger
quote:
This is totally understandable if you have ever seen a young person working in a retail outlet struggle to make change.
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.
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