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LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

It’s really pretty simple - if something increases by 80%, you add 80% of whatever it already is… one dollar becomes $1.80… one percent becomes 1.8 percent.

Most people don’t understand it because they’ve seen it done wrong so often, the wrong way seems right.

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blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’m quite willing to bet that 70% of the population has no clue that percentages, fractions, and decimals are the same thing.

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- AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  www.snopes.com/…/third-pound-burger-fractions/
  
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- FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  That’s about 60% more than expected
  
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  - Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    You mean 38 percent points higher ?
    
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- pixelscript@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Then odds show up to the party and upend everything we thought we understood.
  
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- SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  I think you can increase that by about 7.5/10%
  
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  - emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Is that 7.5 percent or 7.5 percentage points though? :/
    
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    Hadriscus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    11%/10% with rice
    
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