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Old 02-11-2008, 08:46 PM   #1
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Maybe I am missing something, but I always believe it is better to KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid*). By adding steps, you introduce additional opportunities to make a mistake.

In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't matter all that much though.




* No, I am not calling anyone stupid: it is just the acronym
Kevy, I'm pretty sure we've all heard the acronym by now... hehe Anyone who hasn't probably needs to crawl out of that rock they've been living under.

On the other hand, I suspect that CP is more language person, such as myself. I have always done well in math, but because I relate it to something else - usually using vocabulary and logic type questions, kind of like the SATs. And like Drince said, it's better to take a little longer coming from the correct place than it is to go quickly from the wrong place.
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Old 02-11-2008, 10:54 AM   #2
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Percentage couldn't be easier.

To find what percent A is of B:

A/B * 100
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Old 02-11-2008, 11:08 AM   #3
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Percentage couldn't be easier.

To find what percent A is of B:

A/B * 100
That's what I thought, but I was forgetting to multiply by 100 and wasn't sure if the 0.6857 was truley 68.57%.

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Old 02-11-2008, 10:12 PM   #4
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Whereas I would have figured that 5/7 is a about 70% (70.173 or so I believe). .2/7 is about 2.8%, so yeah, the same ~67.2% as Alex gout (though I might have gone up to 68.5, figuring in that .173).
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Old 02-11-2008, 10:16 PM   #5
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Ok, fine. I was being fancy. Realistically, I'm used to the number enough that off the top of my head I know that 4.66 is 2/3rds of 7 so I'd have said "a bit more than 67%."

So, as you see, there are all kinds of ways to approach the problem. Not the least valid of which is "ask on a message board."

As a nomination for "least valid" I nominated carving the question into the chest skin of a long-term comatose patient in hopes that they one day wake up and answer you.
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What's wrong with the European ones?
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