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A recent Voice contributor complained that with no price change the product quantity was reduced 16.5 percent, a “price increase of 16.5 percent”-wrong!

Assume $1 per package. The new package is 83.5 percent of the old package in contents. To get 100 percent, you would divide 83.5 into 100 and multiply that by $1; a 19.76 percent increase.

Take a more egregious example. A 50-percent cut in package contents with no change in package price means a 100 percent increase in cost.