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Topic: is there anyone around you that would fuck up this basic percent question? Try them on it

boof started this discussion 3 years ago #109,693

If you want 50% of a number, you can divide that number by...
2. By 2, because 50% is a half, and you can get a half of something by dividing by 2.

Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 9 minutes later[^] [v] #1,224,326

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boof (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 9 minutes later, 19 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,224,327

I overloaded a guy's hippocampus with this shit

Anonymous B replied with this 3 years ago, 2 minutes later, 21 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,224,328

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Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 9 hours later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,224,357

@1,224,327 (boof)
Math education is shit in the US and most people don't understand basic concepts like this because their teachers never taught them in an intuitive way. Everyone thinks math is just memorizing a bunch of equations and shit and that's why no one likes it. Percentages are just fractions with extra steps and that should be obvious to everyone but most teachers don't teach it like that and leave their students with an aversion to anything math so they never properly learn.
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