If someone has a success rate of 90%, they fail twice as often as someone who has a success rate of 95% (10 times per 100 vs 5 times per 100) If someone has a success rate of 98% they fail twice as often as someone who has a success rate of 99% (2 times per 100 vs 1). Why is this the same?

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If someone has a success rate of 90%, they fail twice as often as someone who has a success rate of 95% (10 times per 100 vs 5 times per 100) If someone has a success rate of 98% they fail twice as often as someone who has a success rate of 99% (2 times per 100 vs 1). Why is this the same?

In: Mathematics

Answer 1

Here are those same numbers a different way: If there are 100 cookies and you eat 1 then sometime else was 2, they ate twice as many.
If you eat 5 and they eat 10, they have eaten twice as many again.

Doubling large numbers is bigger than doubling small numbers