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Old 03-28-2011, 11:50 PM   Topic Starter
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Okay, I'm trying to figure out how somebody messed up a calculation in a report.

They claim that there are 363, 857 people in Year A, and 422, 495 people in Year B. They then say that the growth is 13.8 percent.

Okay, that's obviously not correct. But how did they come up with 13.8 percent? I'm trying to figure out if they mis-entered a number or if they can't do basic division or what the heck their problem is, but I can't even come up with a scenario that would produce 13.8 percent. Can anyone figure out how a person who's bad at math would come up with that answer?
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Old 03-28-2011, 11:52 PM   #2
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13.8 percent of all statistics are made up. Maybe they just took a terrible guess.
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Old 03-28-2011, 11:52 PM   #3
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Old 03-28-2011, 11:55 PM   #4
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I ran all sorts of different computations into my calculator, and all I can come up with, is they took a wild stab at it.
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Old 03-28-2011, 11:55 PM   #5
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This should be the simplest thing ever. I can't figure out how they screwed up, and I need to know.
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Old 03-28-2011, 11:57 PM   #6
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This should be the simplest thing ever. I can't figure out how they screwed up, and I need to know.
422,495-363,857=58,638

58638/422495=.13878
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Old 03-28-2011, 11:57 PM   #7
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Old 03-28-2011, 11:58 PM   #8
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Dammit you beat me to it! I type too slow.. but in my defense I double checked my answer!

(of course I could delete your post and take all the credit )
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Old 03-28-2011, 11:59 PM   #9
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Dammit you beat me to it! I type too slow.. but in my defense I double checked my answer!
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Old 03-29-2011, 12:01 AM   #10
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Sadly.. even with bad math they rounded incorrectly... it should be a wrong answer of 13.9%
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Sadly.. even with bad math they rounded incorrectly... it should be a wrong answer of 13.9%


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Ah! So they calculated population growth using the wrong denominator. Brilliant! Rep for everybody in this thread!*

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Old 03-29-2011, 12:04 AM   #15
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These people are a bunch of idiots. They had no business doing this report that I'm reading, and the very first number in the report is this one, which is calculated wrong.
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