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- 23-Apr-2006, 14:17 #1
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to increase 500% Hello,
I'd like to say that corn prices did not double, but increased *5. - And I've no idea how to do that: did they increase five times, for five times??
Could you help me, please?
Thanks a lot.
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- 23-Apr-2006, 15:10 #2
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Re: to increase 500% You could say
'Corn prices increased by a factor of five'
'The price of corn quintupled'
- 24-Apr-2006, 05:04 #3
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- 25-Apr-2006, 09:36 #4
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Re: to increase 500% You could also say 'corn prices became five times as much'
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