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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What will the average amount be by year 2025 and 2050?
The HDI for Burkina Faso is $0.388$. Annually, its average HDI increases by $2.6090\%$. If this continues what will the HDI be by $2025$ and again by year $2050$?
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Percentage Increase and Decrease
I am having a kind of a chicken-egg problem.
For example, I am wholesale merchant and I want to sell an orange for \$100 to the end user.
I know that the retail merchant adds 12% on top of my price, but the retail merchant should sell it for 100…
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What percentage of 316.1 million is 20 million?
I am horrible at percentages and I keep getting 15.805% as the answer to the question posed in the title, but according to others that is wrong and the answer is 6.33%. I can't wrap my head around this. Can someone please help to explain it?…
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how to solve venn diagram without drawing it
The question is "90% of the students in school passed in English, 85% passed in Mathematics and 150 students passed in both the subjects. If no student failed in both the subjects, find the total number of students." options given are…
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How can I reverse the percentage of a number?
For example, I have an x number. 15% of x number is taken as discount and subtracted from x number. Then 10% of the remaining result is added to the result as tax and the result is found. Let's call the result Y. I want to find the number X by…
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Change in percentage between two different volumes
I need to show the progress of closed tickets between the 2 sprints in percentage difference.
Example:
Out of 150, I have closed 80 in 1st Quarter,
Out of 280, I have closed 167 in the 2nd Quarter.
Now, how can we find the change in progress in…
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Add percentage compensating fees
Let say I do some trade operations, such as buy an asset at X price and sell at X + P%.
Buy and sell have both a fees of Y.
How much percentage should I add to get X + P% compensating the fees on both operation?
Tried P+Y+Y%, but of course the trade…
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Counterintuitive percentages
I wanted found if is better composed yield (a x b) or sum of yields (a + b) and why.
And while on that i found one quite counterintuitive thing, namely that:
0.9 * 1.2 = 1.08
is same as
1.2 * 0.9 = 1.08
I know that this is very basic commutative…
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Formulas for percentage gain/loss equivalent to formula for percentage change?
Can you please tell me whether the percentage change formula below can be used in place of both the percentage gain formula and the percentage loss formula below? Thank you in advance.
I have seen that percentage gain can be calculated using this…
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How to calculate the remaining video length if watched in different speeds?
I'm searching for a formula which can calculate the remaining video speed if selected different speeds.
So if I have a video and watch it twice as fast, then it's half the time. That's easy.
But what should I calculate if I use 1.25, 1.5 or 1.75…
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How to find different percent of an amount?
This is a simple calculation but i couldn't figure out how to calculate it. I know how to find percent of a number, for example, 80% of 1600 is 1280. However, let us take an example of $1600 and I want to divide it into different values of…
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How to get percentage of a UI slider from a given position?
let's basically say that I have a UI slider in my game, with :
min : $60$
max : $140$
position percentage : $40$%
position : ?
how do I calculate the position using what's given above ?
I tried some equations I found in the internet and the closest…
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How do i calculate this simple problem i have?
Product A has 10% tax and product B has 24% tax. 2 products cost together 50€ with tax included. Tax of two products sum together is 8€. What is the price of product A tax included?
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How to find a percent less than a number?
I need to calculate 9.7 percent less than 17100000, but I think it would be way better if someone could please explain this to me. Thank you
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The number of daily visitors to a website decreased 9% last month to 3003 people. How many daily visitors were there before the decrease
The number of daily visitors to a website decreased 9% last month to 3003. How many daily visitors were there before the site decrease
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