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Offline ankerdine

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Re: I was never any good at percentages or fractions!
« Reply #18 on: Saturday 06 September 14 08:52 BST (UK) »
Thought this was going to be a thread about improving ones mathematics expertise. ;)

Very interesting statistics though. ???

I tried to steer clear of anything to do with this subject at school - to my cost in later life. Help!

Judy
Blair, Marshall, Williamson - Ayrshire, Wigtownshire
Saxton, Sketchley - Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire
Brown, Green - Rutland
Hawker, Malone, Bradbury, Arnott, Turner, Woodings, Blakemore, Upton, Merricks - Warwickshire, Staffordshire
Silvers, Dudley, Worcs
Deakin - Staffordshire

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Re: I was never any good at percentages or fractions!
« Reply #19 on: Saturday 06 September 14 10:37 BST (UK) »
I DON'T seem to be much of a mix:

12/32  Co.Durham
16/32  Scotland
4/32    Norfolk

but definitely Northern!!  until me - first born further south (midlands)

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Re: I was never any good at percentages or fractions!
« Reply #20 on: Saturday 06 September 14 22:03 BST (UK) »
Good evening,

There seems to be several who didn't enjoy fractions Judy, or have forgotten the rules of fractions. Fractions should always be expressed as the largest parts possible. So you cannot have an equal no of 32nds as in Diddys answer.

12/32 should read 3/8 or 37.5%
16/32 should read 1/2 or 50%
4/32 should read 1/8 or 12.5 %

32nds can only be expressed as such if there are an odd no of them and the same for any no of parts of the whole. Don't mean to pick on you Diddy, just that your answer is in view as I type my answer, there are others on here as well. And I wasn't even a swot, as you can see by my starting a sentence with AND!

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Re: I was never any good at percentages or fractions!
« Reply #21 on: Sunday 07 September 14 12:21 BST (UK) »
that's ok = I am aware I could have found the equivalent fractions - I DID get my GCE Math & my daughter is a secondary Maths teacher with maths degree!

equally, if I was getting my own back, I could correct your English which was my strength at school!

Diddy  ;D

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Re: I was never any good at percentages or fractions!
« Reply #22 on: Sunday 07 September 14 14:53 BST (UK) »
I knew the math boffins couldn't resist  ;D 8)
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