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"file-sharing accounts for 3 percent of global downstream and 22 percent of upstream traffic, with 97% of that traffic in turn being BitTorrent"

Two questions:

1. How much is 97% of 3% ?

2. Why did the writer used such technique to make it sound big ?

1. 0.3 * 0.97 = 2.91

2. I don't think the author is trying to make it sound big, but they could have worded it differently. I think the author is making two points:

> a. 3% of all downstream traffic is file-sharing traffic. > b. 97% of file sharing traffic is bittorrent.