What if you make a bet with a quid and get 2 quid and ten pence back from the bookie, don't you end with 110% profit? I'll take the 10p if you don't want it. I heard of a bookie giving great odds...
(Beaverman Opulence, I has it., Mon 26 Sep 2011, 13:46, 2 replies)

That's not the same though is it?

In terms of effort put in, the maximum anyone can give is 100%. It's a finite amount representing the most possible.

Giving 110% means giving more than is physically possible, therefore a ridiculous statement.
(BinDipper, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 13:57, closed)

But what if they normally only give 80%?
So an athlete works to a level of effort which over the course of the event works out to a mean effort of 80%. Sometimes they will be at full-stretch, and sometimes they will be waiting for something to happen.
We might see approximately a normal distribution of effort with mean at 80% and a standard deviation of 7%.

Now if you increase the mean effort to 110% of their usual level, their mean effort would be 88% (with the standard deviation about 5%).
( Ghoti Fingers, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 15:21, closed)

wouldn't be much of an athlete
if he only usually gave 80%. the lazy cunt.
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 15:28, closed)

Spoken like a true mathematician

( Ghoti Fingers, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 18:12, closed)

100% would be the most they are physically able to give. The extra 10% comes from performance enhancing drugs.
( Draconacticus Reject shampoo. Demand real poo!, Mon 26 Sep 2011, 16:48, closed)

No, you can never make 100% (or more) profit unless the item cost nothing in the first place.
You're thinking of markup.
I buy something for £1, sell it for £2 that's 100% markup, 50% profit.

*I think, am a tad pissed
(Kip, Wed 28 Sep 2011, 20:38, closed)