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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Working out percentage in reverse
Trying to brush up my appalling maths and came unstuck on this example:
"If I earned $11 yesterday, and that's a 96% drop, how much do I normally earn?"
I started approaching this as follows:
If $\$11 = 96%$ drop, it means $\$11 = 4\%$ of the…
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Percentages: Department of Meteorology
$1.$ I worked out $23 percent$ of all disasters that took place in Europe ($313$)
$0.77$ x $313$ $=$ $241.01$
$2.$ I then worked out $18percent$ of European disasters that were storms ($241.01$)
$0.82$ x $241.01$ $=$ $196.882$
I'm not sure what to…
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Percent word question
My son is stuck on this maths homework question and I do not know how to do this. The question says: "there are $682$ girls in a crowd of $1000$. What percent is this". Use no calculator.
We have done $\dfrac{682}{1000}$ and simplified to…
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How to find the full amount of calculated VAT amount
How to find the full amount of Calculated Vat value?
Here i have calculated VAT Amount from Full amount.
VAT Percentage 10%
Full Amount = 100
VAT Amount = ???
= (10/100)
= 0.1
= 0.1 * 100
= 10 (VAT)
= 100 - 10
= 90 (VAT Amount - After calculated VAT…
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Grade needed to pass 60%
If I have 4 quarters and I need a 60% to pass the school year what equation can I use to find what I need to pass?
Example. 1st marking period: 87.20% 2nd marking period 69.15% 3rd marking period: 45.92%. What would the equation be to find out…
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Create X/Y percentage formula based on two example values
I'm trying to figure out the formula of X to Y based on the following two examples:
If $X = 78.6$ then $Y = 3.8 \%$
If $X = 72.9$ then $Y = 4.3\%$
As X decreases Y raises. I'd like to be able to calculate:
What is $X$ if $Y = 15\%$ ?
What is $X$ if…
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finding the overall loss or profit percentage
A person sells two shirts for 880 each . he gets a 10% profit on one whereas 20% loss on the other. Find the overall profit or loss percentage
I didn't understand how to find the overall profit and loss percentage.
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Calculate price of item using chance to receive item and original price
Didn't know how else to word the title, I apologize. Basically, if I were to buy a pack of cards for 500(theoretical units), and it contains 3 cards, that's 167 per card. However, is there a way to find the average value of a certain type of card…
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Percentage ( Broker)
The income of a broker remains unchanged though the rate of commission is increased from 4% to 5%. What is the percentage of slump in business?
Doubts:
Rate of commission is extra amount on income?
slump means decrease, so how can the broker's…
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Percentage ( Debts & Assets )
A debtor can pay 87 paise in the rupee, but if his creditors would take 20% of his debts, he could pay them and have Rs. 42 left. Calculate his debts and assets.
I don't understand the bold part of the sentence. Please help me to understand this…
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How to make percentage differences end up the same? So larger number changes are even with smaller number changes
How to make percentage differences end up the same? So larger number changes are even with smaller number changes...examples:
(a)
New Price: 126.953
Old Price: 126.83
Difference = 0.123 / 0.09%
(b)
New Price: 26.953
Old Price: 26.83
Difference =…
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Know increased percentage
I have to percentages 15%and 85%in total 100%:
When I want to change the 15% to 35% i calculate:
35 / 15 = 2.3333333
Next I calculate: 15 * 2.3333 = 35
Now what I want to know if:
By only knowing the percentage 233.3333% with that I had to…
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Contribution to change in year over year growth number
I am trying to figure out a solution to a unique problem.
I am trying to calculate the contribution to year over year change (over quarters) in the sales of a shop, highlighting the contribution of 3 areas:
Number of people coming into the shop =…
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Calculate Effective rate of the loan
Example: 10,000 EUR Interest Rate is: 6.96%, Additional payment 0.05% of the loan amount, and the effective loan rate is 7.34% says bank.
My question is, how did they come to 7.34% as the effective rate. What is the formula to calculate in excel.
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What is the percentage?
From all the population interviewed 36% respondents had a car at home, 19% had a motorcycle and 4% had both.
I need to find the percentage of respondents having a vehicle either motorcycle or car or both.
Could you please give some hints how to…
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