>perl -wMstrict -le
"my @change         = (1.15, -0.1, 5.4, 1.03, 1.15, -0.241);
 my @numberofshares = (9999,  400, 200,  300,  500,    240);
 my %hash;
 @hash{@change} = @numberofshares;
 printf qq{%d keys in hash (oops...) \n}, scalar keys %hash;
 my $sum = 0;
 while (my($k, $v) = each %hash) {
   $sum += $v * $k;
   }
 print qq{sum == $sum (?)};
"
5 keys in hash (oops...)
sum == 1866.16 (?)

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>perl -wMstrict -le
"use List::Util qw(sum);
 use List::MoreUtils qw(pairwise);
 use vars qw($a $b);
 my @change         = (1.15, -0.1, 5.4, 1.03, -0.241);
 my @numberofshares = ( 100,  400, 200,  300,    240);
 my $sum = sum pairwise { $a * $b } @change, @numberofshares;
 print qq{sum == $sum};
"
sum == 1406.16