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A Test for young people
Ask people you know who are under 25, you'll be amazed at
the answers! 1. What is a record player? 2. What is a dial telephone? 3. Who were the Beatles? 4. What is an 8-track tape player? 5. How many major wars occured in the 20th century? 6. What is inflation? 7. What is the cheapest price you can remember for gas? 8. What was the draft? 9. How were things done before computers? 10. How did people send a letter before e-mail? |
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On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:17:49 -0500, Stormin Mormon wrote:
1. What is a record player? Yeah, I doubt my kids have ever even seen one - even audio cassettes are a rarity. 4. What is an 8-track tape player? I don't think I ever saw one of those until I came to the US - I'm not sure they were ever 'big' anywhere else. I did once have an answerphone that had a built-in 1/4" reel-to-reel tape deck... 7. What is the cheapest price you can remember for gas? I remember our boy getting into our '67 truck for the first time last year and looking around for the switch to operate the electric windows... funny how people come to rely on technology. 8. What was the draft? Isn't a draft an initial release of something, before you work out how to do it properly? ;) 10. How did people send a letter before e-mail? Cell phones seem to be the current thing - our three kids are 8, 10 and 11, and everyone of that age at their schools seems completely obsessed with owning a cell phone, and holds an unshakable belief that they can't possibly do without one. It's all a little depressing, somehow. cheers Jules |
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On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:17:49 -0500, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote: Ask people you know who are under 25, you'll be amazed at the answers! 1. What is a record player? Plays vinyl audio albums. 2. What is a dial telephone? Called a rotary dial phone otherwise. 3. Who were the Beatles? British pop group of the 60's, 70's and 80's. I have their Anthology CD set. 4. What is an 8-track tape player? Plays an endless loop tape with 4 stereo tracks. Antiquated with the introduction of the compact cassette and subsequently the CD. 5. How many major wars occured in the 20th century? Ranking most deaths on top with 1 million or greater deaths: a. WW2 b. WW1 c. Korean d. Chinese Civil War e. Vietnam 6. What is inflation? Depends on what you are inflating 7. What is the cheapest price you can remember for gas? $1.00 / gal 8. What was the draft? In what context? 9. How were things done before computers? What things? 10. How did people send a letter before e-mail? Used the USPS. Answers provided by 17 year old Jeff The Drunk Jr. |
A Test for young people
"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message ... Ask people you know who are under 25, you'll be amazed at the answers! 1. What is a record player? 2. What is a dial telephone? 3. Who were the Beatles? 4. What is an 8-track tape player? 5. How many major wars occured in the 20th century? 6. What is inflation? 7. What is the cheapest price you can remember for gas? 8. What was the draft? 9. How were things done before computers? 10. How did people send a letter before e-mail? Better yet, ask them where Portugal is or what state is Washington DC in. Ask them about Pearl Harbor, Normandy. Ask them what the three branches of our government are. |
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11. How many square feet is a room that is 10'x10', or how much is 10%
of 100--without a calculator. A while back, I was reading one of the humor pages in a Reader's Digest,and a teacher had given a test question: The War of 1812 was between ______ and _____. One answer was--1811 1813. |
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"Sanity" wrote in
: "Stormin Mormon" wrote in message ... Ask people you know who are under 25, you'll be amazed at the answers! 1. What is a record player? 2. What is a dial telephone? 3. Who were the Beatles? 4. What is an 8-track tape player? 5. How many major wars occured in the 20th century? 6. What is inflation? 7. What is the cheapest price you can remember for gas? 8. What was the draft? 9. How were things done before computers? 10. How did people send a letter before e-mail? Better yet, ask them where Portugal is or what state is Washington DC in. Ask them about Pearl Harbor, Normandy. Ask them what the three branches of our government are. what state is Washington DC in. a) turmoil b) confusion c) havoc d) recklessness .... .... z) all of the above |
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I remember about 10 years ago, I was at a station putting Diesel in the
Olds 98 I had, and the young girl clerk came running outside yelling "Sir, that is Diesel you are putting in, not gas" Told her" yep, that's what it takes" She couldn't believe it. I admit I gotta give her credit for being observant and helpful. |
A Test for young people
Sanity wrote:
"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message ... Ask people you know who are under 25, you'll be amazed at the answers! 1. What is a record player? 2. What is a dial telephone? 3. Who were the Beatles? 4. What is an 8-track tape player? 5. How many major wars occured in the 20th century? 6. What is inflation? 7. What is the cheapest price you can remember for gas? 8. What was the draft? 9. How were things done before computers? 10. How did people send a letter before e-mail? Better yet, ask them where Portugal is or what state is Washington DC in. Ask them about Pearl Harbor, Normandy. Ask them what the three branches of our government are. Or just about any question about the history of unions in this country. |
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"Stormin Mormon" wrote in news:hjs9ro
: Ask people you know who are under 25, you'll be amazed at the answers! 1. What is a record player? 2. What is a dial telephone? 3. Who were the Beatles? 4. What is an 8-track tape player? 5. How many major wars occured in the 20th century? 6. What is inflation? 7. What is the cheapest price you can remember for gas? 8. What was the draft? 9. How were things done before computers? 10. How did people send a letter before e-mail? 11. You buy an item for $1.27. You hand the clerk two dollars. Without a using a calculator, how much change should you get back? We've seen kids at a cash register practically in tears trying to make change when the power went out. |
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In article 31, Zootal wrote:
11. You buy an item for $1.27. You hand the clerk two dollars. Without a using a calculator, how much change should you get back? We've seen kids at a cash register practically in tears trying to make change when the power went out. *Nobody* knows how to make change anymore. I worked my way though college 30+ years ago running a cash register at a drugstore. This is how we were taught to make change, using your example above, and counting _out loud_ to the customer: Put the purchase in a bag, hand it to him, and say "A dollar twenty-seven". Then three pennies: "28, 29, 30." Then two dimes -- "40, 50." Then two quarters -- "75, two dollars, thank you sir." The beauty of this method is that you don't have to do any math to speak of. All you need to do is count. It doesn't matter if neither the cashier nor the customer can do the subtraction correctly -- it always produces the correct change, and everybody knows it. And nobody under the age of about fifty has any idea how to do that. |
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On Jan 28, 2:25*pm, Zootal wrote:
"Stormin Mormon" wrote in news:hjs9ro : Ask people you know who are under 25, you'll be amazed at the answers! 1. What is a record player? 2. What is a dial telephone? 3. Who were the Beatles? 4. What is an 8-track tape player? 5. How many major wars occured in the 20th century? 6. What is inflation? 7. What is the cheapest price you can remember for gas? 8. What was the draft? 9. How were things done before computers? 10. How did people send a letter before e-mail? 11. You buy an item for $1.27. You hand the clerk two dollars. Without a using a calculator, how much change should you get back? We've seen kids at a cash register practically in tears trying to make change when the power went out.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Calculators; bah humbug. Ah but we also pay a sales tax. Used to be 15%. Which was easy; one tenth plus half of that again, added to the price. So in the example above sales tax would be 12.7 (that's 13 cents) plus half of that again (6.5 cents) a tax of 19 cents. So; 1.27 = 19 cents = well mentally I would say well that's one cent less than 1.47 or 1.46. And 1.46 is 4 cents less than 1.50 so from the 2 bucks that's, 54 cents change!!!!! New the sales tax has been reduced to 13%; haven't yet worked out a quick way to mentally calculate that. There probably is one though. Suggestions welcome. BTW anybody interested in our 'Quick and Dirty' interest and monthly repayment calculation that one can do in one's head and is reasonably accurate for amount up to say $20,000 and say five years. Although again been meaning to work out some sort of correction factor for bigger amounts or longer periods!. PS. Grandson when very small seen urgently pointing a digital calculator at the TV and pressing various buttons; thinking it was the TV remote! And in more recent years he's been showing his friends this 'cool' phone with a round dial (A Contempra with in-handset rotary dial) that we have in the hall passageway for convenient answering. But yes; I don't know how to 'knit' a fishing net or use a cast net, split a chunk of wood with one blow; skills my father in law and brother in law took for granted. |
A Test for young people
"Stormin Mormon" wrote in message
... Ask people you know who are under 25, you'll be amazed at the answers! 1. What is a record player? 2. What is a dial telephone? 3. Who were the Beatles? 4. What is an 8-track tape player? 5. How many major wars occured in the 20th century? 6. What is inflation? 7. What is the cheapest price you can remember for gas? 8. What was the draft? 9. How were things done before computers? 10. How did people send a letter before e-mail? Ask them to tell you what time it is using a regular clock instead of a digital one...LOL... |
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On 01/28/10 12:25 pm, Zootal wrote:
11. You buy an item for $1.27. You hand the clerk two dollars. Without a using a calculator, how much change should you get back? We've seen kids at a cash register practically in tears trying to make change when the power went out. Most store these days have no provision for selling anything without using the UPC scanner, quite apart from the onerous task of figuring out the change. Even writing down the UPC no. on a piece of paper doesn't work, because the store identifies an item not by the UPC but by the SKU -- and only the computer system knows how they are related. Perce |
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On 01/28/10 10:54 am, Jeff The Drunk wrote:
Ask people you know who are under 25, you'll be amazed at the answers! 1. What is a record player? Plays vinyl audio albums. Vinyl? Which world are you living in? Real record players play shellac discs. We had one my father bought at an auction that even had with it some old Columbia discs that were recorded at 80rpm -- and the player had a setting for that. 7. What is the cheapest price you can remember for gas? $1.00 / gal 79 cents a gallon on Long Island, NY in 1998 or thereabouts. 9. How were things done before computers? What things? Mechanical adding machines, then electronic calculators. The first 4-function electronic calculator I saw cost approx. $100. Perce |
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Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
On 01/28/10 10:54 am, Jeff The Drunk wrote: Ask people you know who are under 25, you'll be amazed at the answers! 1. What is a record player? Plays vinyl audio albums. Vinyl? Which world are you living in? Real record players play shellac discs. We had one my father bought at an auction that even had with it some old Columbia discs that were recorded at 80rpm -- and the player had a setting for that. my parents had an edison recorder/player that used wax tubes. he also had this enormous adding machine with a crank that could also subtract. he's still using the old black dial phones. |
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On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:50:54 -0600, Jules
wrote: On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:17:49 -0500, Stormin Mormon wrote: 1. What is a record player? How about a disc RECORDER, Or a Player Piano? 4. What is an 8-track tape player? How about a "cassette" recorder that used Cassettes about 6X8 inches with the wide dape like used on the old real to real? Made by RCA 7. What is the cheapest price you can remember for gas? I pumped hundreds of thousands of gallons at 46.9 cents - and with the inevitable gas wars of the late sicties I bought more than one tank full for less than 11 cents per gallon. 8. What was the draft? Isn't that what you get when a window or door doesn't seal properly?? 10. How did people send a letter before e-mail? Snail Mail Had a parcel sent to me in Africa in the seventies, preceded by an air mail letter. The parcel arrived in 2 days, while the air-mail letter took several weeks - - - - -. |
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On Jan 28, 10:17*am, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote: Ask people you know who are under 25, you'll be amazed at the answers! 1. What is a record player? 2. What is a dial telephone? 3. Who were the Beatles? 4. What is an 8-track tape player? 5. How many major wars occured in the 20th century? 6. What is inflation? 7. What is the cheapest price you can remember for gas? 8. What was the draft? 9. How were things done before computers? 10. How did people send a letter before e-mail? That can be turned around as well. Ever watch the game show called "Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader"? One of the early contestants was an actual "Rocket Scientist" that worked for NASA. He was gone after missing the first question. And it was a question from the first grade part of the quiz. David |
A Test for young people
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:25:25 -0600, Zootal
wrote: "Stormin Mormon" wrote in news:hjs9ro : Ask people you know who are under 25, you'll be amazed at the answers! 1. What is a record player? 2. What is a dial telephone? 3. Who were the Beatles? 4. What is an 8-track tape player? 5. How many major wars occured in the 20th century? 6. What is inflation? 7. What is the cheapest price you can remember for gas? 8. What was the draft? 9. How were things done before computers? 10. How did people send a letter before e-mail? 11. You buy an item for $1.27. You hand the clerk two dollars. Without a using a calculator, how much change should you get back? We've seen kids at a cash register practically in tears trying to make change when the power went out. Now add in the different sales taxes. And THEN figure out the change. |
A Test for young people
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:55:54 -0800 (PST), terry
wrote: On Jan 28, 2:25Â*pm, Zootal wrote: "Stormin Mormon" wrote in news:hjs9ro : Ask people you know who are under 25, you'll be amazed at the answers! 1. What is a record player? 2. What is a dial telephone? 3. Who were the Beatles? 4. What is an 8-track tape player? 5. How many major wars occured in the 20th century? 6. What is inflation? 7. What is the cheapest price you can remember for gas? 8. What was the draft? 9. How were things done before computers? 10. How did people send a letter before e-mail? 11. You buy an item for $1.27. You hand the clerk two dollars. Without a using a calculator, how much change should you get back? We've seen kids at a cash register practically in tears trying to make change when the power went out.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Calculators; bah humbug. Ah but we also pay a sales tax. Used to be 15%. Which was easy; one tenth plus half of that again, added to the price. So in the example above sales tax would be 12.7 (that's 13 cents) plus half of that again (6.5 cents) a tax of 19 cents. So; 1.27 = 19 cents = well mentally I would say well that's one cent less than 1.47 or 1.46. And 1.46 is 4 cents less than 1.50 so from the 2 bucks that's, 54 cents change!!!!! New the sales tax has been reduced to 13%; haven't yet worked out a quick way to mentally calculate that. There probably is one though. Suggestions welcome. Must live in Ontario. By July it will all be One tax instead of 2, so yu won't need to remember if it gets GST, PST, or both applied. BTW anybody interested in our 'Quick and Dirty' interest and monthly repayment calculation that one can do in one's head and is reasonably accurate for amount up to say $20,000 and say five years. Although again been meaning to work out some sort of correction factor for bigger amounts or longer periods!. PS. Grandson when very small seen urgently pointing a digital calculator at the TV and pressing various buttons; thinking it was the TV remote! And in more recent years he's been showing his friends this 'cool' phone with a round dial (A Contempra with in-handset rotary dial) that we have in the hall passageway for convenient answering. But yes; I don't know how to 'knit' a fishing net or use a cast net, split a chunk of wood with one blow; skills my father in law and brother in law took for granted. |
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In article 31, Zootal wrote:
I worked at a gas station when I was in school, and that is what we were taught also. I think it was pretty much the definitive way to make change. And it is so simple! I read somewhere that in the years to come, after the technology crash happens and we are back to mechanical cash registers, Wal-Mart will be hiring all of use old programmers to run their cash registers because none of the kids these days know how to count money and no one else out there can do any math. I was always the fastest of the cashiers. Back then, Indiana sales tax was only 4%, and figuring that in my head was trivial. Much faster than looking it up on the little chart... |
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[snip]
10. How did people send a letter before e-mail? Snail Mail Had a parcel sent to me in Africa in the seventies, preceded by an air mail letter. The parcel arrived in 2 days, while the air-mail letter took several weeks - - - - -. In 2007, I tried to contact the owner of the house behind me (on the same block). I mailed a letter to that address (even though the house was vacant, someone might be getting the mail). The letter was returned as undeliverable, early in 2010. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.us "How could you ask me to believe in God when there's absolutely no evidence that I can see?" -- Jodie Foster |
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[snip]
Ask them to tell you what time it is using a regular clock instead of a digital one...LOL... For how long will an analog clock be called "regular"? |
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Sam E wrote in
: [snip] Ask them to tell you what time it is using a regular clock instead of a digital one...LOL... For how long will an analog clock be called "regular"? We quit calling analog clocks "normal" and "regular" many years ago...my kids see an analog clock on the wall, and they ask me what that funny looking thing is. |
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On 1/28/2010 10:32 AM chaniarts spake thus:
my parents had an edison recorder/player that used wax tubes. he also had this enormous adding machine with a crank that could also subtract. he's still using the old black dial phones. Amazing that the telephone network still supports pulse dialing, ain't it? -- You were wrong, and I'm man enough to admit it. - a Usenet "apology" |
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On 1/28/2010 12:05 PM Zootal spake thus:
I read somewhere that in the years to come, after the technology crash happens and we are back to mechanical cash registers, Wal-Mart will be hiring all of use old programmers to run their cash registers because none of the kids these days know how to count money and no one else out there can do any math. Math? *Math?* We're talking about simple *arithmetic* here, for chrissakes. Can't even ****ing *make change*; forget about differentiation, integration, polynomials, etc., etc. We're doomed. -- You were wrong, and I'm man enough to admit it. - a Usenet "apology" |
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On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:38:09 -0600, Zootal
wrote: For how long will an analog clock be called "regular"? We quit calling analog clocks "normal" and "regular" many years ago...my kids see an analog clock on the wall, and they ask me what that funny looking thing is. Bumper Sticker: (paraphrased) If you want to know something ask a teenager. They know everything Ask the kids what time is American Idol on?? |
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Deficit?
-- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "Red Green" wrote in message ... what state is Washington DC in. a) turmoil b) confusion c) havoc d) recklessness .... .... z) all of the above |
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Oh, better. Hand the clerk five dollars, and two cents. That
will kill any public school student. -- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "Zootal" wrote in message . 97.131... 11. You buy an item for $1.27. You hand the clerk two dollars. Without a using a calculator, how much change should you get back? We've seen kids at a cash register practically in tears trying to make change when the power went out. |
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I'm 47, and I do that all the time. However, I may be
acceptional. * -- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "Doug Miller" wrote in message ... *Nobody* knows how to make change anymore. I worked my way though college 30+ years ago running a cash register at a drugstore. This is how we were taught to make change, using your example above, and counting _out loud_ to the customer: Put the purchase in a bag, hand it to him, and say "A dollar twenty-seven". Then three pennies: "28, 29, 30." Then two dimes -- "40, 50." Then two quarters -- "75, two dollars, thank you sir." The beauty of this method is that you don't have to do any math to speak of. All you need to do is count. It doesn't matter if neither the cashier nor the customer can do the subtraction correctly -- it always produces the correct change, and everybody knows it. And nobody under the age of about fifty has any idea how to do that. * Acceptional. Adj. One who is more than usual accepting of others limits and foibles. |
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What time is it, when the big hand is on the little hand?
Bedtime at Michael Jackson's. -- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "benick" wrote in message . .. Ask them to tell you what time it is using a regular clock instead of a digital one...LOL... |
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"Percival P. Cassidy" wrote in message
... 1. What is a record player? Plays vinyl audio albums. Vinyl? Which world are you living in? Real record players play shellac discs. We had one my father bought at an auction that even had with it some old Columbia discs that were recorded at 80rpm -- and the player had a setting for that. CY: I've seen 78 RPM, but not 80. 7. What is the cheapest price you can remember for gas? $1.00 / gal 79 cents a gallon on Long Island, NY in 1998 or thereabouts. CY: That goes back. Before I was driving, gas was about .33 a galon. I don't th ink there even was a minium wage back then. You got paid about what you were worth. 9. How were things done before computers? What things? Mechanical adding machines, then electronic calculators. The first 4-function electronic calculator I saw cost approx. $100. CY: I remember my Dad bought a desk calculator from Heathkit for $125. He might still have it. I bought a mechanical adding machine one time at a garage sale. Brought it home in my wagon. My parents were not ammused. Perce |
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Reefer was a type of truck....
-- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. wrote in message ... Mechanical adding machines, then electronic calculators. The first 4-function electronic calculator I saw cost approx. $100. Perce I can remember when "computer" was the job title of a person. |
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I bet the dial phone also has the four pin plug?
-- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "chaniarts" wrote in message ... my parents had an edison recorder/player that used wax tubes. he also had this enormous adding machine with a crank that could also subtract. he's still using the old black dial phones. |
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On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:15:54 -0800, David Nebenzahl
wrote: On 1/28/2010 10:32 AM chaniarts spake thus: my parents had an edison recorder/player that used wax tubes. he also had this enormous adding machine with a crank that could also subtract. he's still using the old black dial phones. Amazing that the telephone network still supports pulse dialing, ain't it? Yeah, my .line doesn't support TONE dialing yet!!!!! |
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I've not seen the show. However, a test can stump anyone.
Depends on who writes the test. I'm sure I could write a multiple choice question that would fail most of the folks on this list. -- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "hibb" wrote in message ... That can be turned around as well. Ever watch the game show called "Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader"? One of the early contestants was an actual "Rocket Scientist" that worked for NASA. He was gone after missing the first question. And it was a question from the first grade part of the quiz. David |
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I think it is based on the age of the person speaking.
-- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus www.lds.org .. "Sam E" wrote in message ... [snip] Ask them to tell you what time it is using a regular clock instead of a digital one...LOL... For how long will an analog clock be called "regular"? |
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In article , "Stormin Mormon" wrote:
Oh, better. Hand the clerk five dollars, and two cents. That will kill any public school student. I recently handed a cashier a twenty and a one for a purchase of ten dollars and some cents. She looked quite puzzled. I got back some coins, a five, and five ones -- one of which was the one I'd handed her to begin with. I had to ask for a ten instead of the smaller bills. And told her "that's why I gave you the one-dollar bill in the first place, so I'd get a ten back." OHHHHH!! |
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On Jan 28, 12:42*pm, (Doug Miller) wrote:
In article 31, Zootal wrote: 11. You buy an item for $1.27. You hand the clerk two dollars. Without a using a calculator, how much change should you get back? We've seen kids at a cash register practically in tears trying to make change when the power went out. *Nobody* knows how to make change anymore. I worked my way though college 30+ years ago running a cash register at a drugstore. This is how we were taught to make change, using your example above, and counting _out loud_ to the customer: Put the purchase in a bag, hand it to him, and say "A dollar twenty-seven". Then three pennies: "28, 29, 30." Then two dimes -- "40, 50." Then two quarters -- "75, two dollars, thank you sir." The beauty of this method is that you don't have to do any math to speak of. All you need to do is count. It doesn't matter if neither the cashier nor the customer can do the subtraction correctly -- it always produces the correct change, and everybody knows it. And nobody under the age of about fifty has any idea how to do that. They just arent taught. I showed a kid working at a charity garage sale how to do it . It took all of 30 seconds to show him and he was VERY appreciative. He had been struggling. Jimmie |
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On Jan 28, 7:09*pm, "Stormin Mormon"
wrote: I've not seen the show. *However, a test can stump anyone. Depends on who writes the test. I'm sure I could write a multiple choice question that would fail most of the folks on this list. Any question is easy if you know the answer. I don't remember the particular question the rocket scientist missed but one of the questions today was "a tom tom, snare and bongo are types of what musical instrument". The contestant had to ask the fifth grader for help. -- Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus *www.lds.org . "hibb" wrote in message ... That can be turned around as well. Ever watch the game show called "Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader"? One of the early contestants was an actual "Rocket Scientist" that worked for NASA. He was gone after missing the first question. And it was a question from the first grade part of the quiz. David |
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