Urgent! To all PH Maths gurus...

[Wacky Racer]

Ok,

In a town there are 3,600 males

There are 3,663 females.

How many males as a percentage of the total are there, and how did you work it out?

Thanks.

WR.

[Plotloss]

49.566294919454770755885997521685

(3600/7263)*100

[filski666]

49.57%

percentage is number of males divided by total in village multiplied by 100

Edited by filski666 on Tuesday 8th December 22:32

[UncleDave]

Sum of them both gives a total of 7263..

Then males, divided by the total (3600/7263) is 0.4956629491945477

Multiply by 100 gives 49.56629491945477 %

To be precise :P

[littleandy0410]

Nearly half.

HTH

[Wacky Racer]

Okay here's another:

You have the age statistics for town A and town B in terms of percentages but not in numerical form.

You want to know what the combined percentage for people that age in the region (town A + town B) is; would that simply be a case of adding percentage A to percentage B?

I.E.

5% are age 0-4 in town A
8% are age 0-4 in town B

13% are age 0-4 in the region.

Doesn't look right to me?

[Merp]

Wacky Racer said:

Okay here's another:

You have the age statistics for town A and town B in terms of percentages but not in numerical form.

You want to know what the combined percentage for people that age in the region (town A + town B) is; would that simply be a case of adding percentage A to percentage B?

I.E.

5% are age 0-4 in town A
8% are age 0-4 in town B

13% are age 0-4 in the region.

Doesn't look right to me?

isn't it 6.5% as your taking an average of both towns...

[Wacky Racer]

Merp said:

Wacky Racer said:

Okay here's another:

You have the age statistics for town A and town B in terms of percentages but not in numerical form.

You want to know what the combined percentage for people that age in the region (town A + town B) is; would that simply be a case of adding percentage A to percentage B?

I.E.

5% are age 0-4 in town A
8% are age 0-4 in town B

13% are age 0-4 in the region.

Doesn't look right to me?

isn't it 6.5% as your taking an average of both towns...

That's what I thought...

You divide the 13% by two..........I assume......

[911DM]

Merp said:

Wacky Racer said:

Okay here's another:

You have the age statistics for town A and town B in terms of percentages but not in numerical form.

You want to know what the combined percentage for people that age in the region (town A + town B) is; would that simply be a case of adding percentage A to percentage B?

I.E.

5% are age 0-4 in town A
8% are age 0-4 in town B

13% are age 0-4 in the region.

Doesn't look right to me?

isn't it 6.5% as your taking an average of both towns...

Depends on the number in town A and the number in town B. Not enough info for a numerical answer.

Edited by 911DM on Tuesday 8th December 23:04

[Plotloss]

Its a straight average if the towns are of equal size.

[911DM]

Which is likely to be the answer although they should say this in the question!

[Famous Graham]

Wacky Racer said:

Ok,

In a town there are 3,600 males

There are 3,663 females.

How many males as a percentage of the total are there, and how did you work it out?

Thanks.

WR.

Erm...were you serious, asking for that? Or was it just a precursor to the next question? Or am I overestimating the mathematical ability of anyone over the age of 10.

[Wacky Racer]

911DM said:

Which is likely to be the answer although they should say this in the question!

Where it could become complicated is if town A had a population of 2300 (for example) and town B 4100.....the figure wouldn't be entirely accurate.....Who'd be a maths teacher?......

[Wacky Racer]

Famous Graham said:

Erm...were you serious, asking for that? Or was it just a precursor to the next question? Or am I overestimating the mathematical ability of anyone over the age of 10.

Well I did get GCE "O" level maths in 1969, but I'm a little rusty..........

[Famous Graham]

Wacky Racer said:

911DM said:

Which is likely to be the answer although they should say this in the question!

Where it could become complicated is if town A had a population of 2300 (for example) and town B 4100.....the figure wouldn't be entirely accurate.....Who'd be a maths teacher?......

Again...erm...no, it's not complicated at all.

5% of 2300 = 115
8% of 4100 = 328

115 + 328 = 443

443 as a percentage of 6400 (443/6400 * 100) = 6.92%

I'm astonished you're asking for help, to be honest.

[Famous Graham]

Wacky Racer said:

Famous Graham said:

Erm...were you serious, asking for that? Or was it just a precursor to the next question? Or am I overestimating the mathematical ability of anyone over the age of 10.

Well I did get GCE "O" level maths in 1969, but I'm a little rusty..........

"Rusty"?

Disintegrated more like

[Wacky Racer]

Famous Graham said:

Wacky Racer said:

Famous Graham said:

Erm...were you serious, asking for that? Or was it just a precursor to the next question? Or am I overestimating the mathematical ability of anyone over the age of 10.

Well I did get GCE "O" level maths in 1969, but I'm a little rusty..........

"Rusty"?

Disintegrated more like

Thanks anyway......

[Famous Graham]

I saw that sneaky delete, merp

[byhff]

wow. honestly wow.

[i remember]

your town is full of lesbos