12.6 percent of high-school students this year said they’d had a cigarette in the last month, down from 13.6 percent last year.

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Svetach [21]

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12.6 percent of high-school students this year said they’d had a cigarette in the last month, down from 13.6 percent last year.

Quantify the change in Relative terms

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Fynjy0 [20] · Answer 1 · 2022-07-13T14:43:25+03:00

Fynjy0 [20]3 years ago

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The change was 12.6 - 13.6, or -1.0, where the negative sign denotes a decrease.

Comparing this change to the original figure (13.6%), we get

-1.0
------ = -0.074, or -0.07. This is the relative change.
13.6