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Thank you We sneak in I mean here's your shmoop

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du jour brought to you by pie charts Don't be

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fooled They may look like pie but no taste like

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it All right check out this job description from the

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kindly loving layer Okay here we go If blair was

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hired for this position approximately how much of her work

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week would be spent handling inter office phone calls and

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email correspondence and hear the angels Wow this one's a

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little matthew for an english test but it's All right

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though pie charts are pretty simple Or should we say

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easy as pie No we shouldn't Okay this particular pie

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chart is divided by task with the red portion indicating

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inter office correspondence That little red square on the right

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here is what tips us off Would a rat anyway

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let's Imagine that this pie is divided into quarters Now

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we can see that the red piece takes up about

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one fourth or one quarter of the whole shebang Oh

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great we're almost there Now all we have to do

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is ask ourselves which of these percentages equals one quarter

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isn't your seat Well no fifteen percent in ten percent

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are way too low and we can also eliminate choice

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d because seventy percent is way too high Choice b

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is the one and only answer there's Twenty five cents

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and a quarter right while one fourth or one quarter

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of anything is always twenty five percent Well maybe not

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anything The pie were infinite and this might be hard 00:01:32.812 --> [endTime] to calculate Well infinite pie That sounds delicious

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