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"You may find fractions complicated "

cheeky sod, might just report you for being insulting!
I meant you complicated the whole question as the answer was obvious

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It stated that the bellboy couldn’t figure out how to spilt £5 evenly between three men so he must have been thinking in decimals especially as our currency is decimal currency. You are trying to mix theory with practice. You can have one and one third pounds in theory but you cannot do so in practice. You could in the old money of pounds shillings and pence though.

The art of working in fractions seems to be a dying art these days. Decimals are much simpler to use especially in mental arithmetic. But even then do people understand what £8.33r means when dividing £25 by 3 using decimals? Or dividing £5 by 3 to get 1.66r or 1.6666666667. Multiply 1.6666666667 by 3 and you get 5.0000000001.

I could have done the explanation in decimals but would have ended up with £1.98 and that is not £2. I suppose that I could have gone to explain where the missing 2p was but it was simpler to use fractions.

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Thank you sir, please mark my report "must try harder next time" :rolleyes: :D

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You really are beginning to annoy me now jambutty, but you insult people's intelligence and think that's ok...yet you can't even take a joke. you really are a pompous old goat

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Report that if you wish!!!

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There was nothing cheeky or insulting in suggesting that you may find fractions complicated. The operative word there being MAY.

I suppose that to cover myself all ends up I should have put, “You may or may not find fractions complicated, I don’t know your level a mathematical acumen etc. etc. etc.”

But report away if you must.

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erm no... I'm not as petty as you!

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So just because you say that I am beginning to annoy you I am supposed to do what?

Is that the intelligence that can only resort to name calling?

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I speak as I find....