Monday, January 30, 2012

How do I calculate the percentage of the difference of two numbers?

If the numbers are 8.47 and 9.94 and the difference is 1.47, what is the percentage change?How do I calculate the percentage of the difference of two numbers?
Use the lower number as the denominator and the difference as the numerator. Multiply quotient by 100 to get the percent of change.

1.47/8.47 ~ .1735537 * 100 ~ 17.36%How do I calculate the percentage of the difference of two numbers?
percentage referenced to the first or to the second number? or possibly to the average of the two?



(1.47 / 8.47) x 100



.How do I calculate the percentage of the difference of two numbers?
1.47 / 8.47 x 100

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