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Suppose, a litre of cola costs US$3.15. If you buy one third of a litre of cola, how much would you pay?
The above may seem like a rather basic question. Something that you would perhaps expect the vast majority of adults to be able to answer? Particularly if they are allowed to use a calculator.
Unfortunately, the reality is that a large number of adults across the world struggle with even such basic financial tasks (the correct answer is US$1.05, by the way).
[...] In many other countries, the situation is even worse. Four in every ten adults in places like England, Canada, Spain and the US can't make this straightforward calculation – even when they had a calculator to hand. Similarly, less than half of adults in places like Chile, Turkey and South Korea can get the right answer.
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High number of adults unable to do basic mathematical tasks
(Score: 4, Informative) by Fluffeh on Friday March 16 2018, @02:46AM (2 children)
Wow. I think the biggest soda I have seen in a vending machine is 600ml (Just over a half litre) and most vending machines sell cans of soft drink - which are 375ml (roughly a third of a litre). I would say if anyone was going to tease American's it would now be about the absurdly large sizes of soft drinks sold in vending machines?
*sips 250ml coffee*
(Score: 2) by schad on Friday March 16 2018, @04:02AM
Maybe I'm not remembering correctly. Cans (12 fl oz) are most common, followed by regular-size bottles (500ml). I could swear I've seen 1L bottles in vending machines before, but thinking about how big they would be, perhaps not.
We Americans do love our carbonated corn syrup delivery vehicles. Though reading about the native drinks that some other countries have... yeesh. Ours might actually be healthy by comparison.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 17 2018, @12:28PM
Cans are 355mL or 345mL in Canada.