Tham KY's answer to Xinyi Cheng's Secondary 2 Maths question.

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Xinyi Cheng
Xinyi Cheng
7 years ago
hi,thank you for answering , but i still have some doubt regarding this , how did that -15/16 became positive?
Tham KY
Tham KY
7 years ago
negative change means decrease, positive change means increase.
As I labelled the percentage as "percentage DECREASE", cannot indicate the negative sign anymore.

Unless I labelled it as "percentage CHANGE", then -15/16 would be used.