Quarry mathematics
THAT the quarry income under the Panlilio administration has been phenomenal need no convoluted explanation. The numbers don’t just tell the whole story. They scream it!
P1 million a day is P1 million a day, in any language. Or is it?
Going over a capitol press release on the “steady” rate of the government take from the sand industry, some figures rocked the very foundation of my knowledge in elementary arithmetic. Yeah, that which taught me one plus one equals two, four minus one equals three, two times two equals four, and ten divided by two equals five.
The Office of the Provincial Treasurer released the figures that for the period August 16-31, quarry income totaled P11,660,000 for an average of P1,060,00 per day.
And for September 3-19, it amounted to P13,245,000 that yielded an average of P1,018.845.15 daily.
Spectacular, indeed! No questions about it. So where’s my beef?
As I learned it from primary school – and last time I checked, it still holds true – the computation of averages goes through the basic process of division. In this quarry instance, the monthly income serves as the dividend, the number of days it took to get that income acts as the divisor and the resultant quotient indicates the average daily take.
August 16-31 comprised 16 days. Divide the total amount of P11,660,000 by 16 and you get not over P1 million a day as reported but an exact P728,750. That is short of P331,250 from the daily average reported.
September 3-19 covers 17 days. Dividing the income of P13,245,000 by 17 will yield the daily average of P779,117.64 which is P239,728.51 short of the treasurer-reported P1,018,846.15.
That is as basic as any one can get with arithmetic. I just don’t know what parameters or new standards of measurements the Office of the Provincial Treasurer used to arrive at its figures.
So did it subtract from the period covered the Sundays therein? I still would not find this rational as quarry operators respect no Sundays or holy days of obligation in the pursuit of their trade. The caravan of loaded dump trucks plying the quarry routes rivals in length any religious procession on any given day.
So what gives, really? Do we have a new form of mathematics at the treasurer’s office of Pampanga now?
I am kind of disturbed with this thought. Or have you forgotten that new mathematical procedure invention by the Commission on Elections? Yeah, that thing called dagdag-bawas.
(Zona Libre, PUNTO! October 4, 2007)
P1 million a day is P1 million a day, in any language. Or is it?
Going over a capitol press release on the “steady” rate of the government take from the sand industry, some figures rocked the very foundation of my knowledge in elementary arithmetic. Yeah, that which taught me one plus one equals two, four minus one equals three, two times two equals four, and ten divided by two equals five.
The Office of the Provincial Treasurer released the figures that for the period August 16-31, quarry income totaled P11,660,000 for an average of P1,060,00 per day.
And for September 3-19, it amounted to P13,245,000 that yielded an average of P1,018.845.15 daily.
Spectacular, indeed! No questions about it. So where’s my beef?
As I learned it from primary school – and last time I checked, it still holds true – the computation of averages goes through the basic process of division. In this quarry instance, the monthly income serves as the dividend, the number of days it took to get that income acts as the divisor and the resultant quotient indicates the average daily take.
August 16-31 comprised 16 days. Divide the total amount of P11,660,000 by 16 and you get not over P1 million a day as reported but an exact P728,750. That is short of P331,250 from the daily average reported.
September 3-19 covers 17 days. Dividing the income of P13,245,000 by 17 will yield the daily average of P779,117.64 which is P239,728.51 short of the treasurer-reported P1,018,846.15.
That is as basic as any one can get with arithmetic. I just don’t know what parameters or new standards of measurements the Office of the Provincial Treasurer used to arrive at its figures.
So did it subtract from the period covered the Sundays therein? I still would not find this rational as quarry operators respect no Sundays or holy days of obligation in the pursuit of their trade. The caravan of loaded dump trucks plying the quarry routes rivals in length any religious procession on any given day.
So what gives, really? Do we have a new form of mathematics at the treasurer’s office of Pampanga now?
I am kind of disturbed with this thought. Or have you forgotten that new mathematical procedure invention by the Commission on Elections? Yeah, that thing called dagdag-bawas.
(Zona Libre, PUNTO! October 4, 2007)
posted by A.Caesar Z. Lacson at 9:54 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home