Check Your Math, Man...

From a Student's Paper:

Approximately, seven billion people walk the earth today.  Roughly, fifty percent of the total world's population is unemployed.  Thirty percent of the remaining seventy percent is underpaid.  The twenty percent left over are professional athletes.  Professional athletes are not paid too much.

My comment in the margin:

Check your math, man.  You have 120% or possibly 140%.  Which, if you have 7 billion people, actually gives us 8.4 billion.  Or possibly 9.8 billion.   If you're confused, imagine how your reader feels.

Comments

[Jamie]

100% of me is confused. The remaining 20% is laughing hysterically.

[emma]

100% of my research came from the internet. The other 35% came from the voices in my head.