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Old 07-30-2013, 09:16 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by Phlip View Post
To apply round numbers... He makes $40k and she makes $30k (not real numbers, just examples)

If EACH loses 20%, he loses $8k and she loses $6k.
Combined, they WERE at $70k, and if they HAD lost 40%, they would have lost $28k, not the above-counted 14. Now, losing $14,000 bucks a year sucks and I might sell drugs to make the difference personally, but I stand by my statement his - and now YOUR - grasp of percentages is kinda screwed. Simple mathematics is actually just that easy.
Also, simple English is pretty easy too, so you miffed the "you're" in your sentence above as well.
Go back to sleep now.


YOU'RE correct, I was agreeing with you.


He said he was an engineer for the navy. Hence, the boat joke...
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