To: REW who wrote (23694 ) 4/3/1999 11:16:00 PM From: Zeev Hed Respond to
REW, now, kids selling stuff to raise money for their schools, gosh do I know this field, I had to go with my kids to do that door to door selling alright. But guess what, I doubt very much that there are 50 MM kids doing this. They start at about 8 and when they are 12 they do not want to hear any of this. Assuming that those kids that do that are active 5 years (I'll give you an extra year). There are 3.8 MM birth per year in the US annually (that is the very high end of the estimate), assume all of them survive you get total number of kids in the age group of 19 MM, you will be lucky if 20% of the kids in the country in the right age group participate, yielding 3.8 MM kids a far cry from 50 MM.
