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.
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How to calculate volume change from price and gross margin?
I have a matrix that looks like this:
Gross Margin
10% 15% 20% 25% 30%
Price Volume
1% -9% -6% -5% -4% -3%
2% -17% -12% -9% -7% -6%
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15%
The matrix is not all filled out, but you read it…
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Formula to calculate Price of Service
I would like some help in elaborating a formula for a service I will be providing to a retailer's client.
In simple terms, I would be paid a $5\%$ percentage over the price of the client's purchase, with a minimum cost of service of $2$ and a…
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Why is sum of calculation based on individual percentages different than total percentage?
Cost of goods for an entire product line were estimated using a percentage of total revenue. For example, Product line XYZ was projected to have a revenue of \$1,305. The product line's total cost of goods was estimated to be 49.1% of total revenue…
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finding out an average percentage
If 70% of the adult males of a community have brown eyes 75% have dark hair 85% are over 5 feet 8 inches tall and 90 % weigh over 140 kgs what is the least percent of people having all four characteristics ? Is it 15% 20% 18% or 24%?
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Percentages question
John brought a flat at $\\540,000$ and he sold it to Tanny at a loss. Tanny then sold it at a profit to Kimberly at $\\535,000$ .
If the loss percentage on the cost of John is equal to the percentage profit of Tanny on his cost , find the price that…
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How to calculate a group percentage?
In a classroom, there are 8 desks equally arranged in two columns (i.e. each column has four desks). Each desk can accommodate 2 people and there are eight boys and eight girls in total. When two opposite genders share a desk, we call them group 1…
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Taxes calculations on goods: there is something I'm missing
Lets say I have a good that costs 1000 Eur including taxes and that the applied tax rate is 22%.
Gross price = 1000 Eur;
Tax rate = 22% = 0.22;
Taxes amount = 1000 * 22% = 220 Eur
Net amount = 1000 - ( 1 * 22% ) = 780 Eur
Taxes amount + Net Amount…
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Calculating percentage based on an average percentage
This is a typical question a student at any Business School have to deal with during the test. Could you please give me insight on how to solve it. What area of study should I invest in?
A student has obtained an average of 47% across the seven…
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How to calculate percentage based alignment
Ok, first a little explanation of concept and rules:
Let's say we have a container and an image.
Now if we define a percentage, the percentage of the image is aligned to the percentage of the container.
So let's only consider width:
If we say the…
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How to Calculate Item Discount for Packet containing 3 sheet
I have some products (packets) that contain (Sheets) for example:
Product A (Unit: Packet, Packet = 5 Sheet), when I sell one packet and 2 sheet of this product, then:
Total = Packet Price + (Number of Sheet * Packet Price / 5)
But this item has…
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How to calculate the percentage between two numbers?
Assiming the firt is always the bigger one and the second is the smallest
how to calculate the percentage between them, ex:
100, 25 = 25%
thanks
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Percent comparison
I have a frequency list of words. This list was generated using 1,000,000 words. I want to compare how much more word 1 occurs compared to word 2.
For example,
The word "he" shows up 20000 times
The word "she" shows up 6000 times
What percent does…
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Need help with weighted grades calculation
I can't quite see how to solve this, so help will be appreciated.
I want to see if I can ever recover from this situation and what my final projected grade could be based on this. I list my grade in each category and the weight it carries toward the…
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Questions based on ratio and percentage
Out of $5$ questions given in a question paper, $1/20$th of examinees answered all questions and $1/20$th answered none. $1/4$th and $1/5$th of the remaining examinees answered $4$ and $1$ questions, respectively. If $24.5\%$ of examinees answered…
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Increase in price by a percentage for values greater than $100%$
The price of a TV in 1970 increased by $300$% in 1980. The price of
the 1980 model TV increased by $200$% in 1990. By what percentage
did the price increase from 1970 to 1990?
Can someone please assist me in doing this? I let the price to be $x$. In…
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