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minus-squareblackbirdbiryani@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·23 days agoI’m quite willing to bet that 70% of the population has no clue that percentages, fractions, and decimals are the same thing.
minus-squareAlecSadler@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·23 days agohttps://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fractions/
minus-squareFilthyShrooms@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·23 days agoThat’s about 60% more than expected
minus-squareHadriscus@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·23 days agoYou mean 38 percent points higher ?
minus-squarepixelscript@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·23 days agoThen odds show up to the party and upend everything we thought we understood.
minus-squareSaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·23 days agoI think you can increase that by about 7.5/10%
minus-squareemeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·23 days 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.
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 ?
Then odds show up to the party and upend everything we thought we understood.
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