"What Are Your Chances?"

Several days of rain had brought the local river to flood stage.  So it was not surprising when we crossed the bridge that the children commented on the amount of water that was moving with such great force as it made its way down stream.  There were a lot of wows and look at that’s then a young lady who was obviously of a more mathematical mind set spoke up and said, “If you stepped into that you would have a 100% chance of dying.” I thought that very nicely summed it up, but she continued, “You would have a 50% chance of drowning, and a 10% chance of surviving.  May first thought was her math teacher needs to do a little work with percentages.  I looked at her in the mirror and guest what I’ll be working on in math class?  I’m 110% sure some of them won’t get it.