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Name: shankara
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is there a standard or most correct way to calculate Percent Change?


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I have always calculated percentages in the following way: what is the percent change, when the temperature (for example) rises from 100 to 101
((101-100)/100 )x 100% = 1% or when is the percent change when the
temperature falls from 101 to 100, ((100-101)/101) x 100% = 0.99%.

That's it.

Dr.Myron

Hello,

The way a percentage change is determined is standard and is: % change =100 x ((new value-original value)/original value).

You can always avoid the confusion by carefully state the reference point (= original value). For example, saying that "the population of California has increased 8% in the past ten years" is quite unambiguous.

AK


Dr. Ali Khounsary
Advanced Photon Source
Argonne National Laboratory
Argonne, IL 60439


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