Re: One week in eight??

On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:08:14 GMT, Tony Cooper
<tony_cooper213@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:14:05 +0800, "muza" <noway@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> She has only been home one week in eight .
>>
>>What does "one week in eight" mean?
>>
>
>In the last eight weeks, she has only been home for one week. The
>other seven weeks she was not at home.

Dead wrong. He didn't write "She has only been home one week in the
last eight", you'll notice. On average, she is home one week out of
eight, is the correct interpretation.

You don't know nothin', Coop, as they say in West Virginia.

--
Charles Riggs
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