kodewrita:

You need to work on your knowledge of mathematics/statistics.

Percentages are meant to add up to 100.

netghost:

oga must everybody be sad on nairaland.

kodewrita:

You need to work on your knowledge of mathematics/statistics.
Percentages are meant to add up to 100.

kodewrita:


just quoting percentages makes no sense if you dont explain clearly.

BE CLEAR, thats it.

lysaa:

So how'd this thread pass for a joke with all this serious talk about percentages? 

netghost:

LOL
no vex bro, its suppose to be in the programming section, but seun out of his wisdom decided to move it here, probably cos he saw the joke word mentioned

mikuz:

lysaa na bro?

lysaa:

Thats a character assassination that i wouldn't condone!

lysaa:

Thanks but i'll pass hit him hard.

netghost:

i am trying my best not to get into any ignorant arguments on Nairaland, but its becoming impossible ,your above statement only proves that your highest degree was attained from a secondary school, and the years was poorly spent,


__WHAT MORE CAN I SAY__

A percentage is simply another way of writing a fraction with a denominator of 100. For example, 23% = 23/100. am sure you are aware of  improper fraction (a fraction whose numerator is greater than the denominator), such as 4/3, so you can have what we might call an "improper percentage" like 120% or 300%, which is simply 120/100,
There are situations in which a percentage greater than 100% makes no sense. EXAMPLE : james answered 134% of the question,  This makes no sense because if we received 1000 questions, we couldn't possibly answer more than all of them. 

On the other hand, sometimes percentages are used like this: "The number of questions received was up 15.7%, from 5450 in February to 6305 in March." In other words, the increase from February to March was 6305-5450 = 855, and 855 is 15.7% of 5450.

Now, what if the number of questions received went up to 14000 in April?  This would be an increase of 122% from March to April.

IN DAFT TERMS: PERCENTAGE SIMPLY MEANS DIVIDED BY 100
*HOPEFULLY NO OFFENCE WILL BE  TAKEN *

kodewrita:

You need to work on your knowledge of mathematics/statistics.

Percentages are meant to add up to 100.

jackpot:

you explained bullshit. You dont even know mathematics at all. Let me reply him for you. Replying>>

jackpot:

percentages add up to 100% when they are mutually exclusive events of a sample space.
In other words, for instance, a bernoulli event in which there are only 2 possibilities: success or failure. There is nothing in their intersection.
In netghost's assessment, there maybe Kiddies who are Engineers and Phreaks at the same time. So the percentages overlaps themselves cos they are not mutually exclusive events.
You have gotten it or should I go further?

kodewrita:

You need to work on your knowledge of mathematics/statistics.

Percentages are meant to add up to 100.

lysaa:

Teachers don't teach me nonsense.

lysaa:

So what part of the thread did jackpot quote that from? That's statistics and it states the eluded sense!

jackpot:

NETGHOST, look at the question kodewrita asked you.
@ NETGHOST
you should have told him why in your first post the percentages didn't add up to 100% instead of talking about percentages and improper fractions.

kodewrita:

You need to work on your knowledge of mathematics/statistics.
Percentages are meant to add up to 100.

jackpot:

Now replying your bashy post, I don't need to prove to you that I am an authority in Mathematics. I don't teach Maths to JS and SS Students. For now, I hold group discussions for my fellow PG students. Our levels are being taught by Doctors and Profs only.

Check out my courses
Applicable Functional Analysis
Theory of Distribution and Sobolev Spaces
Topology
Advanced Optimization
Operations Research
Theory of P.D.E.
Non-linear Operators in Banach Spaces
et al.

NETGHOST
I challenge you to give me any problem in Higher Mathematics, I would give you a solution ASAP.

Maths is my course. I am ready for your Q's. Please i am waiting. We can even YIM if you want.

lysaa:

Just because i applauded your sense in math shouldn't make your head swell. It was right on point where they eluded the strength of the matter. Didn't call for an unlease of qualifications and prospect.

netghost:

i would have, if he had asked in a polite manner, nairaland is becoming more of a place where u insult and embarrass people rather than gaining knowledge while having fun,

thats what i responded to


Children, always trying to prove something, i no be maths teacher oh, Abeg oh dude i develop softwares for companies, build sites, when i have nothing doing i mentor people based on programming, and when am done with being a GEEK i hangout with girls and my close friends, if you think me and you will be on nairaland proving maths. ,