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Maths quiz

November 3rd, 2006 · Posted by Skuds in Life · 3 Comments · Life

Spot the fallacious maths in this story from the BBC website.

Hint: it is in this paragraph:

So what’s causing such a change in behaviour – with hit and runs doubling in less than a decade? In London in the 1990s, hit and runs were 8% of accidents, now they’re 16% – with 25% in the borough of Hackney.

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