Sentences with phrase «percent chance of working»

If you take something that has a 53 percent chance of working each time, over the long run there is a 100 percent chance of it working.

But I do not agree that a take - out number that has only a 60 percent chance of working out is «safe.»

A take - out number that has an 80 percent chance of working out (according to the historical data) is safe enough to fairly be referred to as «safe,» in my view.

Some people will be alarmed if you report all withdrawal rates with less than a 75 percent or 80 percent chance of working out as «unsafe.»

Anderson says relief wells have a 95 percent chance of working.

Not exact matches

So in practice, if you are young software developer or entrepreneur in San Francisco, you can choose to work at a start - up that will have a more than 50 percent chance of going out of business in the next 18 months without risking the embarrassment of running out of money and having to move back in with your parents.

Germany's biggest industrial union and employers have reached a wage deal that gives workers the equivalent of 3.5 percent annual raises over 27 months and the chance to work a 28 - hour week for up to two years.

Because should the couple have a divorce years down the road (and there is 50 percent chance this will happen), the breadwinner will be required to pay the part time working spouse a portion of his (her?)

If there is no known cause, some treatment may work, but you still have a 50 percent chance or less of having a miscarriage.

Since 80 percent of employers offer some variety of flexible working arrangements, according to Monster, there's a good chance you can find a more accommodating workplace.

The chances of a catastrophic event such as an accidental pandemic are hard to estimate, but preliminary work puts the risk at 0.01 to 0.1 percent per laboratory year of research on transmissible, virulent flu.

So given the signals that forecasters have to work with, they expect a 45 percent chance of above - average storm numbers, a 35 percent chance of near - normal, and only a 20 percent chance of below - normal activity.

For the transit method to work, a planet must pass almost perfectly along our line of sight, the chances of which are around 0.5 percent for an Earth - sized planet (in an Earth - sized orbit) and 10 percent for a Jupiter - sized planet (if it orbits near its star)[source: Ames Research Center, FAQ].

And the problem is those enzymes, if you have Hashimoto's, there's a good chance that D2, D3 and even D1 enzymes are not working optimally, so then that conversion of T4 to T3 — that inactive thyroid hormone to active T3, about 400 percent increase in the metabolic activity of T3 versus T4, those enzymes aren't there for the conversion.

City Year's work with 3rd through 9th graders is guided by a groundbreaking 2006 study from Johns Hopkins University that found that if 6th - grade students demonstrated «early warning indicators» — poor attendance, behavior issues, and low achievement in math and English coursework — their chances of graduating from high school plummeted to 25 percent.

Any numbers with a chance of working out of too much below 80 percent or so are unsafe, in my assessment.

The way I read the discussion here (sorry I have not read the original papers being discussed) is that the new work which showed a lower range of temperatures (Hegerl study noted in # 2) shows a 5 percent chance of the temperature going over 11 degrees F.

«Despite comporting with both federal guidelines and state law, these controls weren't good enough for the EPA... Whatever its rationale, [on August 5th] the EPA imposed Regional Haze retrofits at San Juan that would cost New Mexico ratepayers $ 370 million — a nearly tenfold increase over those approved by New Mexico officials... Based on peer - reviewed research, there is a 35 percent chance that the visibility «benefit» of the EPA's preferred controls could be perceptible by the general population on the seventh - worst visibility day of the year at Mesa Verde, the national park closest to the San Juan Generating Station... In other words, most people won't even notice the difference wrought by the EPA's ultra-expensive controls.»

Is even a thousandth of a percent chance of this sort of thing happening again work the risk?

Although an improved filter is being constructed and is planned for installation, participants were informed that there remains at least a 30 percent chance that the fixes will not work and that the land EDRs will be out of specification.

Statistically, because that's how machine learning basically works, there is a 20 percent chance of fatally hitting the girl, 60 percent chance of fatally hitting the father and 10 percent chance of fatally hitting two of the bystanders.