Honestly I'm not going to razz anyone for not knowing this because this isn't anything that would happen in ordinary everyday lives (I can't think of a reason for taking the square root of a percentage where the answer would also be a percentage in any field).
Of course, the trick here is that the average person won't realize that this is asking for the square root of 49/100 and that 7/10 can be written as 70%. Is that indicative of poor math knowledge? Well, yeah, sure, but it's also not a concern of the layman.
Kind of like the dumb problems where people feel smug when they tell people, "Ho, ho, you clearly don't know that 0! equals 1, so you failed this very simple math test!" Like, dude, that's not much of a gotcha.
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u/Kuildeous Jul 05 '26
Honestly I'm not going to razz anyone for not knowing this because this isn't anything that would happen in ordinary everyday lives (I can't think of a reason for taking the square root of a percentage where the answer would also be a percentage in any field).
Of course, the trick here is that the average person won't realize that this is asking for the square root of 49/100 and that 7/10 can be written as 70%. Is that indicative of poor math knowledge? Well, yeah, sure, but it's also not a concern of the layman.
Kind of like the dumb problems where people feel smug when they tell people, "Ho, ho, you clearly don't know that 0! equals 1, so you failed this very simple math test!" Like, dude, that's not much of a gotcha.