A percentage is a number or ratio expressed as a fraction of $100$. It is often denoted using the percent sign, "$%$", or the abbreviation "$\mathrm{pct}$." -Wikipedia. Percentages are used when describing portions or proportional changes.
Questions tagged [percentages]
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How many words to add
thanks in advance, this is beyond me.
I have to add keywords to internet content for SEO purposes.
At the moment the current word count is 408. The word fertility is used 27 times.
The new page has 582 words and fertility is used 37 times.
My…
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How to calculate percentage right for multiple choice multiple answer
For school. I have a project where we had to take a survey. The questions were multiple choice and they could have multiple answers per question. For example we had one questions with 2 right answers and 7 total. We want to also penelize people who…
streak
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Question about CPI(Cycle/instruction)
I am trying to understand the attached slide. I don't understand what the percentages mean. The professor calculated the CPI in an intuitive way, but I don't understand the idea behind it. Can you explain what CPI is and how to calculate it in this…
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How to create a smooth percentage-based progression when there are large outliers (using only basic operations)
I have a series of amounts which people can donate to achieve various outcomes for a charitable project where one amount is usually much higher than the rest, for example (see also example image below):
15, 25, 70, 100, 6700
I am using a…
Adam George
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How to calculate percentage for battery level indicator?
I'm doing a hobby project which i want to display battery voltage in a OLED display. I have a battery indicator with 30 pixels width.
i want to display when battery is 8.4V full 30 pixels width and when battery is 6v, 0 pixels.
currently I'm…
lasita
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Effective Percentage in Simple Interest
Which simple interest rate over six years is closest to being equivalent to the following: an effective rate of discount of $3\%$ for the first year, an effective rate of discount of $6\%$ for the second year, an effective rate of discount of 9% for…
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How to I turn transaction fees into basis points
How do I turn a transaction fee into basis points for merchant services? Let's say i have
1000 transactions
$25.00 avg ticket
150 bps per transaction +
$0.25 transaction fee
How do I find the total paid in BPS?
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Probability Sum Insurance
An insurance company runs three offices, A, B and C. The company’s employees are distributed as follows: 30% work in office A, 20% in office B and 50% in office C. In office A, 10% are managers, in office B, 20% are managers and in office C 5% are…
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Finding percentage of a dollar amount
I'm working with a website that can be used to pay contractors on my behalf, instead of requiring them to submit to me their W9 for taxes. The website takes $2.75\%$ in processing fees.
If I'm paying someone $\$22$ per hour, and the website…
Alex Regan
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Is 32x equivalent to 320%?
Ok, I know that might be a silly question, even completely dumb.
I'm not good at maths and this question came to my mind :
I use 2 pixel softwares, in the first you can choose the export quality by getting the image bigger by multiplying the size.…
Von
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If this pattern continues what will the balance be in January 2017?
If this pattern continues what will the balance be in January 2017? I noticed every month there's a higher percentage increase but don't know how to calculate. Thank you!
january- 25.29$
Feb- 39.69$
March- 58.36$
April- 86.91$
Jason
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Find price without VAT from price with VAT and VAT rate
I need to calculate what number my number was before it had added percentages.
I have a price including VAT, and I need to find out what to price was before VAT.
In Denmark our VAT Rate is $25\%$; So if I have a product which cost $100$DKK the…
TryingToImprove
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Sequence of percentages with corresponding video retention periods
I couldn't think of a better title so I do apologize if it is misleading, but my question is this:
Of all videos coming in daily,
100% is kept for 30 days
90% is kept for 180 days
50% is kept for 365 days
15% is kept for 1,825 days
5% is kept…
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Percentage and Mean
Okay, I wanna Calculate my grade in a class.Formative is worth 35% of the grade, Summative is 55% and Final exam is 10%. For formative, I have 86.3%. For summative, I have 68%. The final exam has not been take and is therefore 0/0. What is my…
user320034
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Relation between some numbers and some percentage. What does represent $25$ in percent value?
I have a question about percentage.
If
$0$ represents $10\%$
$15$ represents $100\%$
$30$ represents $200\%$
What does $25$ represent in percent value?
I have obtained that $25$ represents $166\%$
Updated:
this is a hypothetical situation. for…
Iuli
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