So...
12 x 1.5 = 18.
40 x 1.5 = 60
a x 1.5 = b
etc.
Yeah, thats the clever way. Swot.
Ah OK, I actually get it! I think.
So if the 40 was 23.5, the 60 would be 35.25...right?
Cool, many thanks to both of you. So we can conclude that the Woofah editors are the best mathematicians on Dissensus - knew it all along...
I'm just doing ratios like crazy now, with a smug grin on my face. Nobody at work seems remotely impressed.
Ah OK, I actually get it! I think.
So if the 40 was 23.5, the 60 would be 35.25...right?
Yeah, sounds right. It's 23.5 * 1.5.
It's funny, I am an official unemployed now so I'll probably go back to tutoring until I find something proper...*self-pimps*
You could become Martin's personal maths tutor, it'll be like Pygmalion except with Maths.
I'm a bit rusty but here goes...
60:40 = 6:4 basically?
So the question is what do you have to do to 4 to turn it into 6.
I.e 4 X 1.5 = 6
this has nothing to do with ratios but
In school I was always told the importance of putting decimal points in the right places when calculating numbers or stating a total figure or whatever, however when I receive some quotations in my job, they read:
10.000,00 (to read £10,000.00)
By the school’s logic, that to me, read’s £10.00
so basically, that’s bullshit.
edit* although looking at similar quotes I'm recieving, I think it's a continental thing, and we, the british have it arse about face?