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I'm an equation that only she solves, these X's and Y's by other names called. My way of dividing is desperately flawed as I multiply the days without her - Page 165
I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the reader will involve himself or herself.
Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.
My worth depended on where exactly the decimal was placed among the zeroes.
Your bullshit quotient is higher than my husband
Three individuals form a partnership and agree to divide the
profits equally. X invests $9,000, Y invests $7,000, Z invests
$4,000. If the profits are $4,800, how much less does X receive
than if the profits were divided in proportion to the amount invested?
Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
I asked my wife, 'On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you
rate me as a lover?' She said, 'You know I'm no good
at fractions.'
If you're a waiter and you're waiting on me, you might get five percent, you might get seventy percent. It depends on how bad my math skills are that day.
Get your calculators out, this will be fun!
Woman reduces us all to a common denominator.
measure twice and cut once.) Fourth,
Whoever had invented long division has a lot to answer for.
People are ARITHEMTIC....There are those who DIVIDE and SUBTRACT .And then there are those that ADD and MULTIPLY....Which Arithmetic are you and what arithmetic do you have around you !
If you do something often enough, a ratio will appear
The advantage of growing up with siblings is that you become very good at fractions.
Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything.
Lynn, she saved half our faction from this stuff," says Marlene, tapping the bandage on her arm from where the Dauntless traitors shot her. "Well, half of half of our faction."
"In some circles they call that a quarter, Mar," Lynn says.
The pleasure I gave my lovers was a four fifth of the pleasure I experienced.
sixteen percent.
proportioned. While
Augie. You're a good girl," said Dad. This was more hope than truth. "You're nine and a half."
"NINE," she corrected. She hated how adults never rounded down to the nearest integer when talking to children.
Save one-third, live on one-third, and give away one-third
How old are you? Twelve?"
"Fourteen & three quarters."
His eyes sparkled. "You're kind of little for fourteen and three quarters."
"Am not," I replied indignantly. "I'm a sophomore this year. How old are you?"
"Seventeen and two fifths."
Hardy Cateses & Liberty Jones.
I gave you my whole when I could only give the quarter. And you kept your half from me when you could give your double.
I am an equation that only she solves, These X's and Y's by other names called, My way of division is desperatley flawed, while I multiply days without her.
You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic ... but we don't sound alike
Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.
Ninety-nine hundredths or, possibly, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousandths of our activity is purely automatic and habitual, from our rising in the morning to our lying down each night.
Arithmetic has began to totter.
Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'
When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.
Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
One's not half of two; two are halves of one.
Ishy, you got any homework?"
"If it's fractions, I'll help you," Sam said.
"Hen still doesn't know how to do fractions."
"I have spelling words I have to mesmerize," Ishmael said
"Those words will never know what hit them" Sam said.
It is now widely believed (and, I think, correctly believed) that the survival of a nation under modern competitive conditions depends on broadening the electorate's competency in numerate matters. Numeracy
Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.
MATTER OF FACTION
Fractionalization by God or marginalization by man?
Kamil Ali
want you to all answer at once. How much is 6 + 4? Class: At once!
Nothing comforted Sabine like long division. That was how she had passed time waiting for Phan and then Parsifal to come back from their tests. She figured the square root of the date while other people knit and read. Sabine blamed much of the world's unhappiness on the advent of calculators.
If you want to know the value of half a second, ask the person who came second in a sprint event at the Olympics.
If you're troubled by the fact that 80/10 doesn't add up to 100, you've discovered the second confusing thing about the Rule. The 80 and the 20 are percentages of different things, and thus don't need to equal 100.
"She can't do Subtraction." said the White Queen. "Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife-what's the answer to that?" "I suppose-" Alice was beginning, but the Red Queen answered for her. "Bread-and-butter, of course."
in this job you really need to know only four things: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - and most of the time you can get by without division!" I
He dropped his pile of papers onto the desk and indicated the sheet on top. "Here is the common I nominate in all the fires, Carl." "You what?" "The common I nominate." "Common denominator, Assad. A compound noun. What common denominator?
Trials and half a dozen smaller
One dollar and eighty-seven cents.
A three-pint problem
Number is different from quantity.
What do you call a stock that's down 90%? A stock that was down 80% and then got cut in half.
I just am not good at math.
The Ownership Quotient,
numbers. William
Here's a quarter, call someone who cares.
It's nonsensical to derive a price/earnings ratio by dividing the known current price by unknown future earnings.
Arithmetic is the death of story.
Hand over the calculator, friends don't let friends derive drunk.
to offer one-tenth to God; but under the new covenant, ten-tenths are required.
There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
Every ZERO Is 3/4th Of an HERO ... !
It's All in the PERCEPTION!
A lot of people... use a calculator!
Percentages are why I am rich.
Money is in the exponent. And exponent needs to be calculated precisely.
100% of the people who give 110% do not understand math.
I believe all of us only use one tenth of our brain. I know people who use one per cent only!
You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.
You can't multiply wealth by dividing it
Math never disappoints.
In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.
I should estimate that in my experience most troubles and most possibilities for improvement add up to the proportions something like this: 94% belongs to the system responsibility of management 6% special
Don't be a hero, young man. There's no percentage in it.
Gods, I love it when you talk mathy to me.
Proportion is almost impossible to human beings. There is no one who does not exaggerate.
Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.
Everyone says "I wish I was in your shoes ... ", the hundreds of people that wish they were in my shoes don't know the tenth of it. If they were in my shoes they would cry like a baby.
With four? Doing a little ... Addition? Multiplication?
If you do not give the tenth part to God, he will take the nine parts.
I quickly tried to do the math but my brain was a jumbled mess and I couldn't remember what number comes after potato!
If you've got a dollar and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've got 71 cents left; But if you've got seventeen grand and you spend 29 cents on a loaf of bread, you've still got seventeen grand. There's a math lesson for you.
Writing is 90% procrastination, 8% perspiration, and 6%biscuit
None of it is math.
And the whole is greater than the part.
I always say when you see that old black-and-white footage of the rocket on the launch pad and it falls over and explodes, that's because people had slide rules. Not having the decimal point is a real drawback. You want the decimal point, take it from me.
Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.
THE ADVENTURE OF THE MISSING THREE-QUARTER
Six, one half dozen or the other ...
That's one in 27 quinquatrigintillion.
Simplify, simplify.
Math? Forget about it. If I add four plus eight plus six, I have to count on my fingers. I guess I'm hooked up differently.
I don't understand why a 40 is a quarter of beer when a 40 is 40 ounces. It's time to embrace the metric system.
80% of the output comes from 20% of the input.
Number, in consequence, includes all things that are capable of comparison. It is not then in quantity only that number produces proportion; it produces it in all things that are capable of agreement and differences in any way at all, whether substantially or accidentally.
Cents are the most universally used interval measure.
I'm sure the Bursar would not agree with those figures," said the Senior Wrangler sourly.
"That is so,' said Ponder, "but I'm afraid that is because he regards the decimal point as a nuisance.
problem shared is a problem halved.
With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go.
My share, it should be lost.
A wise man's question contains half the answer.
Revenge seeks its pound of flesh. That's one fifth of my erection.
Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds.
We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.