Were you being serious asking why doctors need to know fractions?
I can think of a few reasons, maybe I'm missing the point.
Strangely when I was in high school I took the SATs and the other one (damnit forgot the name) and I scored somewhat better on the other 'big' test they give high school students, since it had a science element as well as a math, rather than math only. I did very well on the science and about as poorly on the math as I did on the SATs, but the science brought my score up.
In this day and age I agree that more practical skills such as statistics and sciences should be more heavily emphasized over calculus, trig, and geometry.
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