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Zing Zing Zingbah

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2. 82% can't calculate the cost of carpet?

Reply to pokerfan (Original post)

Thu Mar 3, 2016, 08:13 PM

Mar 2016

For real? I'm not sure I believe this. Most people I know can do this and they are not engineers or scientists. They are just people who need to compute how much things cost in order to save money.

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The "Is Algebra Necessary?" dude is back [View all] pokerfan Mar 2016 OP

The irony is that blue collar workers use advanced math more often than others. lumberjack_jeff Mar 2016 #1

Absolutely pokerfan Mar 2016 #3

Carpenters use geometry, trig & algebra. X_Digger Mar 2016 #7

82% can't calculate the cost of carpet? Zing Zing Zingbah Mar 2016 #2

In their head, maybe? I'd need more detail before I'd swallow this one. n/t X_Digger Mar 2016 #6

For the dude: MineralMan Mar 2016 #4

going metric we could get rid of fractions and all that time wasted dividing/multiplying them n msongs Mar 2016 #5

Amen to that. Wednesdays Mar 2016 #9

I agree with him Nevernose Mar 2016 #8