What is the percentage difference between 56 and 72?

Percentage difference between 56 and 72

What is the percentage difference between 56 and 72? Here we will give you the definition of "the percentage difference between 56 and 72" and then show you how to calculate the percentage difference between 56 and 72.

"The percentage difference between 56 and 72" is the difference between 56 and 72 on a number line as a percentage. To get the difference as a percentage, you divide the absolute difference by the average of 56 and 72, and then multiply it by 100.

To calculate the percentage difference between 56 and 72, we use this four-step process:

Step 1) Calculate the absolute difference between 56 and 72 on a number line by subtracting the numbers, and then get the absolute value of the quotient:

56 - 72 = -16
|-16| = 16

Step 2) Find the average of 56 and 72 by adding them together, and then divide the sum by 2:

56 + 72 = 128
128 / 2 = 64

Step 3) Divide the absolute difference from Step 1 by the average from Step 2:

16 / 64 = 0.25

Step 4) And finally, multiply the answer in Step 3 by 100 to get the percentage difference between 56 and 72:

0.25 x 100
= 25

That is all there is to it. The percentage difference between 56 and 72 is:

25%

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