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LadyScozz

LadyScozz Report 19 Jul 2015 12:11

I wouldn't even try the test, because I'm rotten at arithmetic & maths.

DH is excellent, but he can't spell, so we balance each other.


:-)

But............ I'm not as bad as a woman in a shop I visited recently. I bought two items, one $40 another $29.... and she got the calculator! Geez :-(

RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 19 Jul 2015 12:06

Although I would not usually agree that arithmetic and maths are the same thing the powers that be think otherwise. Could you pass their core test for children ?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationquestions/11744359/Quiz-Could-you-pass-the-new-core-maths-test.html

100% are you an accountant ?
100% no calculator - congrats you are hired
FAIL - commiserations your job now is to make Osbornomics add up.

:-D

fwiw I had to make jottings on paper :-(