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My mathematical mind

October 18, 2007 at 5:00 am by Lauren Keating in The Blotter

At a check-cashing business on Forsyth Street, a clerk said a man came in to cash a Georgia Department of Corrections resident account check for $11,584.79. The clerk said she went to the safe to get $10,000, but got $20,000 without realizing it. She said she gave the man $20,000, plus an additional $1,237.25. (Total: $21,237.25. For those of you who despise math: If she hadn’t given him the extra $10,000, the total would have been $11,237.25 — thus shorting him $347.54. Either way, her math skills appear seriously flawed.) The clerk said she didn’t realize she gave away the extra money until she counted the money in the safe later. (The Blotter Diva says: Could this woman pleeeeeaaaaaase get a job at my bank?)

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4 Responses to “My mathematical mind”

1. Victor Jones Says:
   October 18th, 2007 at 10:42 am

   there is a short story in the comments section that may inspire the bank teller to greater heights but she’d have to move to Bbib County first:
   http://www.macon.com/198/story/163353.html

2. Habit Guy Says:
   October 19th, 2007 at 6:39 pm

   I’m a psychology professor who studies habits and how to change them.

   I’ve never thought of innumeracy as a bad habit before, but it makes sense. It still strikes me as odd that otherwise civilized people will claim to be “just terrible” at math. Those same people would never say that they are “just awful” at reading!

3. Victor Jones Says:
   October 20th, 2007 at 12:23 am

   dang, HG, you showed up just in the nick of time, how do we curb blog addiction and will it destimulate the economy if we do?

4. Dale Says:
   October 25th, 2007 at 9:29 am

   Grabbing an extra $ 10k doesn;t make her bad at math, it makes her a dufus for gatering too many bundles. She obvioucly didn’t break the bundles to count the bills, which also makes her a dufus….or her boss one for not training her to count the bills.

   Her math was probably right, check cashers charge a large percentage fee to cash a check.