Today I heard a sports announcer say that a player was "Giving 110%!"
Now, I didn't major in math (I don't know what a slide ruler's for) so I could be wrong here, but isn't it impossible to get a number larger than 100 when you are calculating percentages? The denominator is the whole (represented by 100% in percentages) and the numerator is some portion of that whole. Right?
So, if someone in sports is giving 110%, are they bringing an extra body part with them?
Nurse's Note: I wanted to have shirts made up for our unit that said, "ICU Nurses Give 110%!" but my manager discouraged it. She said that since we are calculating vasoactive drips, we need to demonstrate some basic math competence so we don't frighten the patients.
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