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Trump's Second Term

But he said the existing price was over £1,300 rather than that it was $1,300.

If you increase $199 by 578% you get $1,349.22
Fair enough.

In my company we encourage our senior technical staff to do outreach. One of our senior staff tutors students in basic math in preparation for apprenticeships as electricians, pipefitters, etc. It's basic construction math: how to read a tape measure, how to convert between fractions and decimals, and how to reckon percentages. After some experience he discovered that the biggest mistake students make in working with percentages is using the wrong denominator in problems expressed such as, "How much is [some value] after a 30% reduction?" Hence he shifted his teaching method to hammer home early on how the denominators are supposed to work. When do you use the bigger value? When do you use the earlier value (regardless of magnitude)? Sounds like Pres. Trump might need to do some remedial homework before he can pass the pipefitter's entrance exam.
 
If you multiply $199 by 6.78 (i.e. 1 + 5.78) you get pretty much exactly $1,350 which is "more than $1,300" and I suspect was the original price.

He's just trolling with the Trumpmath thing now but I suspect the arithmetic is right, only the method is defiantly stupid.

I think he doesn't understand that there's a difference between markup and discount.
 
Over here there was a campaign a few years back to get the OED to recognise "farage" as the term for the rancid liquid that collects at the bottom of dustbins.

A tad offensive to the liquid don't you think? Mind you, I do say that the worst part of walking dogs is having to bag and bin their Farages.
 

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