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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot  But Angela, there is only one English word in this:
And "of" is not a very difficult word. |
Who said anything about English words?
If someone doesn't understand the components (words & symbols) of the question you're asking, then they're not going to give an answer that's "right" to you.
So if you ask someone what is 15% of 100, and they don't understand the concept represented by "%", it's not necessarily that they're bad at math; the issue is that they don't understand what they're being asked for. (In this case, they thought they were being asked how many times 15 fits into 100, the math of which they answered correctly.)