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Aino

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Math Question
« on: July 30, 2011, 09:24:52 PM »
So, I got a little math question :P

We all know(if we've been working with it and see the logic) that multiplaying under 1 and over 0 gives percent as return, but what about dividing, is there any specific outputs from dividing "percent wise"?

hitman271

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Re: Math Question
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2011, 02:04:39 AM »
It all depends on your perspective. LET'S BEGIN.

Assume that 10% of the number of people in a room are Norwegian. There are 25 Norwegians in the room. How many total people are there in the room?

10% of numRoomPeople = 25

0.10( numRoomPeople ) = 25

numRoomPeople = 25 / 0.10 = 250 people

In that situation, dividing by the percentage gave the total.

Aino

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Re: Math Question
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2011, 02:06:25 AM »
Well, that's cool, let's test with 0.33 :D

Aaaaand: Why Norwegians? o.O

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Re: Math Question
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2011, 02:08:13 AM »
I picked Norwegians so you'd retain the information better

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Re: Math Question
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2011, 02:09:16 AM »
Btw, when I'm going back to school, having about percent and total, I'll outsmart my techer :D

She doesn't accept *0.percent even o.O She instist it is The total*Percent/100, which is much a much longer(yet the same) formula, maybe easier to use without calculator, but who cares? :D

And finding the total is much harder, infacrt I always forget the formula she gives away o.O

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Re: Math Question
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2011, 02:10:25 AM »
I think I would retain it even though you used fishes :P