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Bunuel - I got confused by the markings the right hand side's y-axis. They are not equally spaced. This prevented me from extracting numbers in time.

Any thought on such discrepancies and how to look at them?

Also - the approximations you've done(wrt calculations), are you approximating numbers in head using the concepts from NT or using calculator?

Calc will take more time but wouldn't want to go too far in approximations.

Any way I can get better at approximations?

Thanks.

Markings on the right-hand side are equally spaced, with an increment of 0.5.

As for the calculation:

2.9/1.5 < (3/1.5 = 2), so 2.9/1.5 is a bit less than 2;
5.8/2.4 < (6/2.4 = 2.5), so 5.8/2.4 is a bit less than 2.5.
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I STILL DONT UNDERSTAND WHY DO WE NEED TO FIND THE RATIO IN 1ST ONE, WHY CANT BE JUST DIRECTLY COMPARE THEM ?
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I STILL DONT UNDERSTAND WHY DO WE NEED TO FIND THE RATIO IN 1ST ONE, WHY CANT BE JUST DIRECTLY COMPARE THEM ?
You’re comparing land, not output.

Production = yield * land, so land = production / yield.

Yields differ across years (2002 ~1.5 vs 2003 ~2.4), so comparing 2.9 vs 5.8 alone is meaningless. Divide to remove the yield effect: land ≈ 2.9/1.5 ≈ 1.9 vs 5.8/2.4 ≈ 2.4, which is about 25% more in 2003.
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now i get it, thanks

Bunuel

You’re comparing land, not output.

Production = yield * land, so land = production / yield.

Yields differ across years (2002 ~1.5 vs 2003 ~2.4), so comparing 2.9 vs 5.8 alone is meaningless. Divide to remove the yield effect: land ≈ 2.9/1.5 ≈ 1.9 vs 5.8/2.4 ≈ 2.4, which is about 25% more in 2003.
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