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To: homeschool mama
**They found that the chances of breast cancer would decrease from 6.3 percent to 6 percent, a 5 percent drop. **

fuzzy math?!

Hi, hsmama! The fuzz clears up if they're calculating the drop from 6.3% down to 6.0%, 0.3%, as 5 percent of the starting 6.3%. More or less.

12 posted on 07/19/2002 8:36:21 AM PDT by nepdap
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To: nepdap
Hi!

As my post #9 says...

Up 2 nights with ill child...experiencing vertigo myself...thank God my daughter is tutored in math by her father!

17 posted on 07/19/2002 9:05:11 AM PDT by homeschool mama
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