one-and-a-third homes

[beeja]

Hello,

What does it mean when a real estate agent said he sold one-and-a-third homes his first year and made a couple of thousand dollars. I did not understand how someone could sell 1 and 1/3 houses. Please help.

Thank you,

Beeja

 

[Rover_KE]

Neither do I. If that's all he sold and made in his first year he's in the wrong job.

Where did you read this?

 

[Raymott]

Hello,

What does it mean when a real estate agent said he sold one-and-a-third homes his first year and made a couple of thousand dollars. I did not understand how someone could sell 1 and 1/3 houses. Please help.

Thank you,

Beeja

He sold one by himself, and one with two other salespeople. Or the three of them put equal effort in selling 4 homes.

 

[beeja]

Neither do I. If that's all he sold and made in his first year he's in the wrong job.

Where did you read this?

It's from the transcript of Episode 061 "The one with Eben Pagan” by Ilovemarketing.com
See http://ilovemarketing.com/ilovemarketing-content/uploads/2012/03/I-Love-Marketing-061.pdf

 

[Raymott]

It's from the transcript of Episode 061 "The one with Eben Pagan” by Ilovemarketing.com
See http://ilovemarketing.com/ilovemarketing-content/uploads/2012/03/I-Love-Marketing-061.pdf

The original reads "I sold one and a third homes". Why did you change it?

 

[beeja]

The original reads "I sold one and a third homes". Why did you change it?

I didn't change it.That's what I saw in print. See attached photo I just found the similar content on the internet so I posted the link for your information. Next time I'd rather take a snapshot.

 

[5jj]

In the first link you posted, the words were written as 'one and a third'. In the second. they were written as 'one-and-a-third'. I find the first of these natural, the second not.

You wrote '1 and 1/3', which is incorrect.

 

[beeja]

In the first link you posted, the words were written as 'one and a third'. In the second. they were written as 'one-and-a-third'. I find the first of these natural, the second not.

You wrote '1 and 1/3', which is incorrect.

How do you write one and a third in number? Is 1 1/3 correct but 1 and 1/3 not correct? I mean in general.

 

[5jj]

1⅓

 

[beeja]

1⅓

Oh, unfortunately my mobile keyboard doesn't have all special characters. Sorry.

 

[SoothingDave]

1-1/3 is the way to do it with standard characters.

 

[emsr2d2]

1-1/3 is the way to do it with standard characters.

To me, that means "from 1 to 1/3". The dash does not suggest "and" to me.

 

[5jj]

To avoid confusion if you haven't got the symbols on your key board, the only safe thing, if decimals (1.333) are not appropriate, is to write the whole number in words - as was done in the two links you posted.

 

[SoothingDave]

To me, that means "from 1 to 1/3". The dash does not suggest "and" to me.

Yes, there is potential ambiguity. Two points:

1. You don't normally give a range of numbers from highest to lowest.
2. I've only seen it used in recipes. So it's clear that 2-1/4 cups of flour is 2.25 cups not something in the range of 2 to one quarter of a cup of flour.

 

[emsr2d2]

Yes, there is potential ambiguity. Two points:

1. You don't normally give a range of numbers from highest to lowest.
2. I've only seen it used in recipes. So it's clear that 2-1/4 cups of flour is 2.25 cups not something in the range of 2 to one quarter of a cup of flour.

True. We don't use cups in recipes in BrE, but in many of my recipe books, it gives both metric and imperial measurements and American cups. In the ones I just looked in, there is no dash. They read, for example:

2 1/2 cups of flour
1 1/4 cups of milk

 

[Raymott]

1-1/3
That's a minus sign. That expression means 2/3. Another ambiguity.

 

[beeja]

To me, that means "from 1 to 1/3". The dash does not suggest "and" to me.

To me, it looks like an arithmetic problem.

And indeed, you rarely find 1-1/3 or something like that in the cookbooks or the online recipes.