To convert to decimal divide by 100. 85/100=0.85. You may want to simplify the fraction which is 17/20
The quantity reported an <em>equivalent net</em> percentage change of 28 percent.
<h3>How to calculate the net change of a quantity in percentages</h3>
In this problem we must determine the <em>simple</em> percentage change equivalent to two <em>consecutive</em> percentual changes. The formula that describes the situation is:
1 + r/100 = (1 - 60/100) · (1 + 80/100)
1 + r/100 = 72/100
r/100 = - 28/100
r = - 28
The quantity reported an <em>equivalent net</em> percentage change of 28 percent.
<h3>Remark</h3>
The statement is incomplete. Complete form is presented below:
A quantity is changing. At first it descreased by 60 percent and it increased by 80 percent. What is net change of the quantity in percentage?
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Answer:
--- Standard deviation
Step-by-step explanation:
Given
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Solving (a): Explain how the standard deviation is calculated.
<u>Start by calculating the mean</u>
To do this, we divide the sum of the products of grade and number of students by the total number of students;
i.e.

So, we have:



Next, calculate the variance using the following formula:

i.e subtract the mean from each dataset; take the squares; add up the squares; then divide the sum by the number of dataset
So, we have:



Lastly, take the square root of the variance to get the standard deviation


--- approximated
<em>Hence, the standard deviation is approximately 11.28</em>
Considering the calculated mean (i.e. 82.76), the standard deviation (i.e. 11.28) is small and this means that the grade of the students are close to the average grade.