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A small change - the differences between average and total utility occur in decisions on whether to create a person or not. Average utilitarians create people if their utility would be higher than average, while toatl utilitarians create people if their utility would be positive.
And if they would not, in existing, decrease anyone else's utility by enough to offset their own.