Sunday, June 25, 2006

Not so prime numbers....

I was reading this article dated June 23, 2006 about a Springfield, MO based company Prime Inc., one of the nation's largest truckload carriers, and their announcement that it has joined the AMBER Alert Highway Network, an initiative to help recover abducted children.

In the bottom of the article, there is a blurb about the NCMEC….
“…Since its establishment in 1984, NCMEC has assisted law enforcement with more than 119,800 missing child cases, resulting in the recovery of more than 102,200 children….”

If they have assisted in 119,800 cases with 102,220 recoveries, wouldn’t the recovery rate percentage be 85% and not the 96% they claim?

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