average percentage

collocation in English

meaningsofaverageandpercentage

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average
adjective
uk
/ˈæv.ər.ɪdʒ/
us
/ˈæv.ɚ.ɪdʒ/
An average number is the number you get by adding two or more amounts together and dividing the total by the number ...
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percentage
noun
uk
/pəˈsen.tɪdʒ/
us
/pɚˈsen.t̬ɪdʒ/
an amount of something, often expressed as a number out ...
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(Definition ofaverageandpercentagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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While theaveragepercentageof effort was 18, the median was only two.
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Even though theaveragepercentageerror was 0.7%, the percentage pattern error for the first 4 patterns was quite large.
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This calculation provided anaveragepercentageof precision for 10 traps and the standard error.
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Of those with an intermediate level of adoption, theaveragepercentageof adoption was 46 per cent.
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Theaveragepercentageshare of chop loans outstanding in the branch's balance-sheet total is 6.8 per cent for 1896-1913.
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Table 7 shows theaveragepercentageof sentences considered usable by these criteria that each parser produced across all seven texts.
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Theaveragepercentageof respondents without an opinion on a question about policy preferences was 5.7 for voters and 11 for non-voters.
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For example, theaveragepercentageof effort aimed at family-council development was 13 but the median was zero per cent.
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Theaveragepercentageof a given ejido in primary forest is 34.7 per cent.
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In the sample of firms examined in this paper, theaveragepercentageof stock owned by the state was 20.1 per cent.
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After the test was done, theaveragepercentageerror was found to be 0.5%, 0.2% and 0.3% for the first, second and third joints.
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Theaveragepercentageof information available for each cell was then calculated.
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Theaveragepercentageerror was 0.7%, 0.01% and 0.002% for the first, second and third joint respectively when the training was stopped at 30,000 iterations.
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Theaveragepercentageof first-noun choice for a certain sentence type within a group was given for missing responses.
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Theaveragepercentageerror for the first, second and third joints were 0.1%, 0.6% and 0.001%, respectively.
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For each subject, theaveragepercentageof correct target selection was regressed against distracter disparity at the four values tested in the experiment.
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Total scores represented theaveragepercentageby which children were able to reduce their speed on successive trials.
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