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PSesulka
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African Village(very easy)
« on: Jan 24th, 2003, 3:58pm » |
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In a certain African village there live 800 women. Three percent of them are wearing one earring. Of the other 97 percent, half are wearing two earrings, half are wearing none. How many earrings all together are being worn by the women?
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PSesulka
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Re: African Village(very easy)
« Reply #2 on: Jan 24th, 2003, 5:57pm » |
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If it is that easy whats the answer? because some people come up with the wrong answer for a certain reason.
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« Reply #3 on: Jan 24th, 2003, 6:36pm » |
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Well, 3% of the women wear one earring. The remainder wear an average of one earring. So the overall average is one earring per woman; hence 800 earrings.
What is the "certain reason" you refer to?
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« Reply #4 on: Feb 24th, 2003, 6:40am » |
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He is probably referring to the answer of 412. This is the number of women wearing earings. The total number of earings is 800.
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