This stuff always gets to me to Barbara but this is how it works out at 5%.

6.3 to 6% is a drop of 0.3 and looking at this on a population basis you go
0.3(the change)/6.3 (the original starting point) gives you 0.048 or close
to 5%

Karleen Gribble
Australia

>     They found that the chances of breast cancer would decrease from 6.3
> percent to 6 percent, a 5 percent drop."
>
> Unless my math is incorrect-as it may well be-6.3 percent to 6 percent
> doesn't equal 5 percent.  Can someone clarify this for me?  I want to pass
> the article on and use pertinent facts in BF class.  Thanks.
>
> Barbara Latterner
>
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