A college dilemma

[Lagmonster]

As a person who's family consists disproportionately of university-level educators - and has heard 'round the table stories of every poor soul and jackoff our education system can produce - I'd wager money that this kid is a lost cause, because he obviously doesn't give a shit. He might do well if he goes to a second-rate city college and gets a diploma in Human Resources Management or something, but chances are he should start canvassing for jobs in garbage collection.

He would be lucky, not to go to far off topic, but garbage collection is not the bottom of the barrel people think it is.

He would indeed. Garbage collection is a pretty good sinecure, and can get something not too far south of six figures.

Actually, contrary to how it appears, I suggested garbage collection precisely because it was the HIGHEST paying job I could think of that required neither serious education nor particular talent. I get how it could be read either way, mind.

[His Divine Shadow]

1. How is the fraction 6/30 expressed as a percentage?
a. 2% b. 5% c. 20% d. 50% e. none of these

2. 7.5 is 25% of what?
a. 30 b. 10 c. 75 d. 50 e. none of these

This is fun, I was barely a D-level math student in high school (which ends at grade 9 in finland). Heck math education here in Finland in HS is so limited (or was, maybe my school sucked) that we never even started on things like square roots or any type of simplifications, I shoulda gone to the gymnasium...

It's weird, I started finding math to be sort of fun in my mid-twenties (mostly because of it's use in vs. debating back then), in general school was much more fun when it was not the hell of HS anymore. Despite my lack of skills I think that these problems are easily solvable. The first one was tricker since I barely remember doing fractions in HS but the technique we where taught was: (T * 100) / N = 20%

T= Täljare (swedish term, think it's dividend)
N = Nämnare (divisor?)

The second is even easier, I don't remember any specific technique taught in school here but it seems obvious to me, since 25% = one fourth, so you just take 7.5 * 4 = 30.

Yay me, I can do simple math

[Teebs]

I'm studying the final vocational part of law before actually working as a lawyer and they make us do some maths. It's absolutely dire. They make a huge thing out of how difficult it is to work out percentages or something similar and I'm sitting there deliberately using more complicated methods than are necessary to try to make it more interesting.