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[–] 1425908? 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

The key word to focus on, is "from" or "of", which may not even be said, but just implied by the phrase.

Nothing can drop more than 100%, because that would make it zero, but, if you had one burglary in May, and 12 in June, you can have a 1200% increase (from the prior month). Now, taking those 12 burglaries, the following month it drops by 50%, you have 6 burglaries.

The percentages don't add up, so if you said "ok it went up 1200% then it went down 100% the next month, so it would be back to zero, but if you thought that because it went up 1200% and only went down 100%, it should still be 1100% more, but it's not.

Does this make it any clearer?

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[–] amio 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Nothing can drop more than 100%, because that would make it zero

Uh.. that depends. It could be a negative. If you have 10 bucks and lose 200%, you're 10 bucks in debt.

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[–] 1428963? ago 

Ok, got me there.

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[–] OfficerRando [S] 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

First I would like to thank you for not treating me like I'm special, and helping. So if it went from 1 to 12 that's 1200% increases, then a 100% drop would mean we went back to one, not 0? Because the increase was 11, and 100% decrease would be that 11 more from last month?

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[–] 1426044? 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Actually a 100% drop of anything will always take it to zero. The 100% doesn't depend on the prior percent - that's what makes it so confusing.

If you think about money it works out more intuitively. If you lost 100% of your money I'm sure wouldn't think you still had a dollar, right?