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Darn percentages
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05/06/2009 22:10:48
 
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Thread ID:
01404061
Message ID:
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>>There is a race. Participants A and B.
>>A finishes in 29 minutes
>>B finishes in 35 minutes
>>
>>A is 6 minutes faster than B.
>>B is 6 minutes slower than B.
>>
>>Is A 17% or 21% faster than B?
>>Is B 17% or 21% slower than A?
>>
>>Title says it all, darn percentages :)
>
>I do not think that it is because you are from Wisconsin.
>It is how they teached you in the elementary school. Poor America.

He is a transplant, not a native Wisconsite. I believe he came here as an adult. He is from Norway, not Wisconsin :o) Poor Norway??? :o)
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