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**furillo** · 03-27-2007, 04:37 PM

Chris, the problem is that your question is slightly ill posed. What you are looking for I suppose is the percent change of the two numbers? For the number you have given it would be

100*(75-45)/45 = 66.66666... %

In other words 75 is 66.6666...% bigger than 45. You need to compute the difference between the numbers and then divide by one number( the "original value") then multiply by 100 to get a percentage.

03-27-2007, 04:37 PM	#2
furillo Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 439 Senior Member	Chris, the problem is that your question is slightly ill posed. What you are looking for I suppose is the percent change of the two numbers? For the number you have given it would be 100*(75-45)/45 = 66.66666... % In other words 75 is 66.6666...% bigger than 45. You need to compute the difference between the numbers and then divide by one number( the "original value") then multiply by 100 to get a percentage.
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