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Hi powerscore,
I have a much better understanding of this question after reading through the forum, but I have one point that I'm hoping to gain more clarity on. Lets say that in an extreme case, there are 5 billion newspaper readers. Based on the stimulus, we can claim that at most 499 people chose 1984. 499 seems to be a great number when isolated, but 499 out of 5 billion total readers doesn't seem to be much. Does this mean that the "great number of this newspaper's readers" is not relative to the total number of newspaper readers?
I've run into issues determining when to view numbers as absolute and relative, so an explanation of why it seems to be the case that the "great number" here isn't relative to the total would be much appreciated!
I have a much better understanding of this question after reading through the forum, but I have one point that I'm hoping to gain more clarity on. Lets say that in an extreme case, there are 5 billion newspaper readers. Based on the stimulus, we can claim that at most 499 people chose 1984. 499 seems to be a great number when isolated, but 499 out of 5 billion total readers doesn't seem to be much. Does this mean that the "great number of this newspaper's readers" is not relative to the total number of newspaper readers?
I've run into issues determining when to view numbers as absolute and relative, so an explanation of why it seems to be the case that the "great number" here isn't relative to the total would be much appreciated!