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Explain how two amounts of change can be the same but the percentage of change can be different

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The change from 10 to 11 or from 100 to 101 is 1 in each case.

In the first case, the percentage of change is 1/10 = 10%.

In the second case, the percentage of change is 1/100 = 1%.

The percentages of change are different because the bases from which the change is measure are different.

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