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minus-squareblackbirdbiryani@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·18 hours agoI’m quite willing to bet that 70% of the population has no clue that percentages, fractions, and decimals are the same thing.
minus-squarepixelscript@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 hours agoThen odds show up to the party and upend everything we thought we understood.
minus-squareAlecSadler@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·17 hours agohttps://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fractions/
minus-squareFilthyShrooms@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·16 hours agoThat’s about 60% more than expected
minus-squareHadriscus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·9 hours agoYou mean 38 percent points higher ?
minus-squareSaharaMaleikuhmlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 hours agoI think you can increase that by about 7.5/10%
minus-squareemeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 hours agoIs that 7.5 percent or 7.5 percentage points though? :/
I’m quite willing to bet that 70% of the population has no clue that percentages, fractions, and decimals are the same thing.
Then odds show up to the party and upend everything we thought we understood.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fractions/
That’s about 60% more than expected
You mean 38 percent points higher ?
I think you can increase that by about 7.5/10%
Is that 7.5 percent or 7.5 percentage points though? :/
11%/10% with rice