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Ahoey
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Sorry looked at this pic for awhile, all I can say is
Professor Fate
Push the button, Max...
But a 1/5 pounder is smaller than a 1/4 pounder... I must be missing something (besides a few brain cells).
Ahoey
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Like everything else smaller packages
Same price. Only things that they can’t raise the price or lower like that is things that are bought and sold at a per unit price. Like gas or grain. Ever notice the size of a bar of soap 4 showers it’s gone
diymirage
HP@idle > hondaHP@redline
Story has it that A&W lost out its market to macdonalds
A&W made a 1/3 pounder but people thought that the similarly priced 1/4 pounder from macdonalds was the better deal
A&W Restaurants
By now you've probably heard the story: once upon a time, A&W Restaurants released a third-pound burger that failed to catch on thanks to a misunderstanding of fractions. Just how accurate is this tale of math mistakes and fraction flubs? Read on for the scoop. In the 1980s, then-owner A. Alfred...
awrestaurants.com
So, imagine the moneys there is to be made selling a 1/5 pound burger for the same price as a 1/4 pounder, we'd double our profit! ;)
Ahoey
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Bigger # right. Be careful following the masses sometimes the M is silent
diymirage
HP@idle > hondaHP@redline
And id get it if this was an american company trying it in a foreign market (after all, in metric 3 is bigger then 4) but these people grew up on fractions
They should have gotten it
Ahoey
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You’d think. However
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harrisonm
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No, no you must be wrong. I mean, come on, 5 is larger than 4. I mean, we aint stupid I'll take the 1/5th over the 1/4th any day. Seriously, what is bigger, a 4 or a 5?
OK, just kidding. Unfortunately, there are millions of people who do not understand the concept that a larger number in the denominator actually makes the number larger. When I see people wearing T-shirts that say something like, "Ha Ha, Another Day Without Using Algebra", I just want to slap them.
Minercar
LargeDreamsSmallCapital
Common Core Math. Dumbing down the masses.
abdywgn
dismantler
had a donation call yesterday and did not give out an e-mail address or cell phone number. caller did ask if he was speaking on a landline which I confirmed. Towards the end he says I will receive an electronic confirmation about my donation...which I did not make. wonder how that went?
Ahoey
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Hang on while I go get that information set the phone down and go out to shop. Wish I could tell how long they would wait.
diymirage
HP@idle > hondaHP@redline
We used to have telemarketers call our land line, my dad would ask em to hold on and then go about his day
Usually all it took was a few minutes and theyd hang up
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