Verizon Operator Gets Math Lesson is Today's BIG Thing - FEB 09, 2009

 

wtf.......

 

i hate verizon ... lol

 

hahah too much math for when i just woke up. it's so simple but listening to them makes it so complicated lol.

 

ughn i hate math..

 

hahhaha, first i was like wtf, and then oh shit wat an idiot

 

holy ****, what an idiot! wow a lil kid coulda figured that one out!

 

They are the same, but it's still $71. The blogger needs to stop smokin pot.
If it was .71c as a total charge instead of $71, then the rate per kilobyte would have been .0000197 (.00002 rounded up).

 

.002 dollars is the equivalent of .2 cents not .002 cents.....

 

You can look at this many ways. .2 cents is twenty cents.
(one dollar)$1.00 x .002 is 2/1000's which is 20% of a penny therefore not .2cents - The blogger can twist anyway he wants, but he is incorrect.

.002 is 2/1000's

Ex: .634 6=tenths, 3=hundreths, 4=thousandths

Decimals: Tenths and Hundredths - - kwizNET Math/Science/English Homeschool/Afterschool/Tutoring Lessons/Worksheets/Quizzes/Trivia
Thousandths

Can't think of any other examples or ways to put it.

 

wow [shakes my head] you dont even need to know conversions, its simple fraction, a penny is a fraction of a dollar, as is, $.002 is a fraction within a single dollar, where as .002 cents is a fraction of a penny within a dollar. and the sad part is, its not ONE guy that messed up, its TWO!!! TWO!!! do they work side by side or some shit?!?!! wow... (-.-) and here i am sitting next to a shity DSL modem form verizon -.- i was listening to the guy's frustration and thats what i was laughing at heh sad part though, "im going to post this recording on my blog" -.- oh lawd...

 

i remember this from a while back.

how stupid do you have to be??!?!!

 

wtf how is .2 cents equal to 20 cents! also 20% of a penny is .2 cents!

 

So for a reference, what are you saying is a dollar?

 

a $1 bill, with a pic of George Washington on it you know what that is?

 

I know what that is. A dollar is a whole unit of 1.
A penny is .01 cents or .01 dollars; doesn't matter it's the same.
.02 is two cents, .02 dollars, same thing because that's the intention
.002 is two thousandths of a dollar which is also 20% of a penny (.01).
Take a penny and times it by 20% (.01 x .2). I am the only one breaking this down into a thought,
a discussion. Verizon was charging this guy the same way.

The way the verizon c.s. rep is wording it, he is twisting it into:
.00002 (.002 cents is .01 x .002) x 35893kb =.71 cents
Verizon's intentions are to charge him .002 x 35893 = $71.79

 

hmmmm, doesn't seem write because why would .01 of a dollar and .01 of a penny be the same, a penny is .01 of a dollar so it shouldn't be .01 cents....