The phrase "a common formula for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a widely accepted method or approach to achieve a particular result or outcome.
Example: "In mathematics, a common formula for calculating the area of a circle is A = πr²."
Alternatives: "a standard method for" or "a typical approach to".
Mrs. Reding wants to harmonize the rates by having regulators use a common formula for calculating operating costs.
Over the years, Corning had been effective in part because its business units shared a common formula for success.
But this a transitional arrangement: the firm is still working on a common formula for executive compensation which will include options.Other foreign-owned companies have encountered similar problems on a more modest scale.
Two films in particular, Leander Haußmann's Sonnenallee (1999) and Wolfgang Becker's Good Bye, Lenin! (2003), find a common formula for overcoming the "wall in the head" between eastern and western Germans.
Assuming that future generations will be better off than our own, just as we are better off than our ancestors, a common formula for "discounting the future" recommends paying only 5 cents today for every dollar of benefits 100 years from now.
A common formula for an act's expected utility takes the utility for an act-state pair, the utility of the act's outcome in the state, to be the utility of the act's and the state's conjunction: EU A) = ∑i P(A > Si)U(A & Si).
A common formula used for predicting the volume of eggs a female can produce is 4.1 eggs/gram of body weight which gives an average of about 150,000 eggs per spawn.
Melodically, the jingle is comprised of the first 6 notes of a major scale, which is also a very common formula for children's nursery rhymes.
While there are a number of methods used to value a business, the most common formula for smaller transactions is a multiple of seller's discretionary earnings (S.D.E.).
While there are a number of methods used to value a business, the most common formula for smaller transactions is a multiple of seller's discretionary earnings (S.D.E).
Because of an editing error, an article in Science Times on Tuesday about maximum heart rates misstated the doctoral credential of William Haskell, an inventor of the common formula for calculating a person's rate.
