Re: Math Help
Steve Sundberg wrote:
> On 4 Sep 2003 21:40:42 -0700, Brett Robson <jet_boy@deja.com> wrote:
>
>
>>On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 04:32:18 GMT, Steve Sundberg ...
>>
>>>For 40,000 couples to have 80,000 children every year, they'd have to
>>>give birth to twins each and every year. Very doubtful.
>>
>>Try again Steve. It's 40,000 marriages a year, 80,000 births a year.
>
>
> Unless I'm going completely nuts, that's what I mean.
>
> Each one of those marriages is expected to produce 2 babies per year.
>
> Look again at how the original paragraph (and your paraphrase) was
> written.
>
What's written is 40,000 marriages each year. If that means there are 40,000
new "internanational" marriages each year.
Year 1: 40,000
Year 2: 80,000
Year 3: 120,000
.
.
.
Year 10: 400,000 internatational marriages (total)
400,000 x 2 sprogs per marriage equals 800,000.
Seems like a pretty impressive growth rate.
On a separate topic, does Debito include his marriage as "international"?
After all, he *is* Japanese, right? Isn't his kid therefore 100% Japanese
and not one of those "international" kids he says will be invading the
home islands in 10 years' time?
-Jim
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