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Students questioned randomly in a door-to-door poll also opposed, by 56 per cent to 18 per cent, Reagan's approval of plans to build a fleet of B-1 bombers to replace aging...
...Crimson poll of 302 students found that 59 per cent of respondents opposed Reagan's decision, 17 per cent supported it, and the rest gave no opinion or were undecided...
...your article of October 1, on page 6, about the "Postal Rate Hike," you claim that a change from 6 cents to 20 cents represents a 333 per cent increase. While it is true that 333% x 6 is 20, the same reasoning would mean that a change of 6 cents to, say, a modest 8 cents would represent a 133 per cent increase! Such reasoning is obviously fallacious, as would have been plainly apparent given the briefest thought...
...price as a percentage of the original price. The other uses the difference as a percentage of the new price. Notice that neither method allows for using the new price as a percentage of the original price. By the former and, incidentally, more common method, the change from 6 cents to 20 cents represents 233 per cent increase. However, by the latter method, which, by the way, is the one used (knowingly or not) when in the same sentence it is stated that an increase from 15 cents to 20 cents is one of 25 per cent, the change from...
...venture capital makes up less than 4 per cent of the university's endowment of $308 million, which presently earns less than 7 per cent...