Questions tagged [percentages]
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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Computing for a number using two different percentage category.
I've come across a government document on a profile of a city, and have been curios to how to solve for this or if there's already a named formula for it.
City X
Land Area: 49800 ha .
Alienable ...
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How do I convert fraction percentage into mixed fraction?
I know how to convert a fraction into decimal but I want to make my calculation faster so I want to learn how to convert between fractions and percentage.
I found this on a book:
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Simple percentage problem driving me crazy
Ok, so lets say to board a cruise ship it would usually take $60$ to $90$ minutes.
Now it takes only $10$ minutes.
In percentages this is:
$60-10 = \frac{50}{60} = 83.3\%$ reduction (ie. from $60$ ...
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Upvotes and downvotes problematic. [on hold]
I just questioned myself this:
Given that I have on a reddit post:
$5$ net upvotes
$65\%$ upvote ratio.
How many upvotes and downvotes do I have in total?.
I think its solvable, but after some ...
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Word Problem - what percent of the women who apply are hired?
At a certain factory, twice as many men as women apply for work. If 5% of the people who apply are hired and 3% of the men who apply are hired, what percent of the women who apply are hired?
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How to calculate obtaion and total marks from percentage [cgpa & percentage is given]
I got CGPA 3.69 out of 4.00 and i have percentage of each subject like
Subject | Percentage | CGPA
subject 1 | 88.61% | 3.72
subject 2 | 73.31% |3.26
but i have't total ...
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How would I avoid a condition in a formula?
Im currently writing an assignment in my math class. I have to calculate the amount of money an individual pays in taxes, based on his income.
Where I live (Denmark), if you earn more than 500.000DKK ...
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Finding the total using only the value and percentage?
I've tried my best to google this, but I cannot seem to google it correctly or it's just not something people use that often.
I'm trying to essentially solve for X if the equation is:
80=80% of ...
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What is 4 divided by 6? [closed]
I had some difficulty , with this problem in class yesterday.
I don't know where to begin with.
Thanks
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What percentage should be removed? [closed]
The price in the shop is $ 20 by how much % you how to reduce the price to get 15
So 20= to 100%. if you take away 20 from 15 you get 5
So if you take 100-5 =95
So is it 95%
if it is wrong explain ...
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inverse percent (% ^ -1) units symbol
I have a graph showing bias and sensitivity of a psychometric curve (specifically, as logistic function of the form
$\frac{1}{1+\exp(k(x-x_0))}$
, with $k$ = sensitivity and $x_0$ = bias). I am ...
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Cumulative Percentage Loss
I wondered if anybody knew how to calculate a percentage loss/gain of a process over time?
Suppose for example Factory A conducted activity over 6 periods.
In t-5, utilisation of resources was: 80%
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How to get an accurate result in the following problem?
I just wanted to know simple how many percent 1.7 is smaller than 1.9 (and vice versa). What I did is: $\frac{1.7\cdot100}{1.9}= 89.4736842105$.. It means that 1.7 is smaller than 1.9 in 10.5263157895%...
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Decoding confidential numbers expressed as percentages using number theory
This is a actual problem I encountered at work. Little long as it requires some explanation
Let $n_1, n_2, \ldots n_k$ be natural numbers and let $s$ be their sum. The expressed as a percentage, the ...
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Negative percent below 100%
Maybe this is a dumb question, but is it valid to have a negative percent below -100% when comparing two quantities?
I'm evaluating the Net Present Value of an investing project affected by many ...
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I tried answering this question but my answer is in decimal. How can a number of muffin be in decimal?
Mrs Ho baked a total of 60 banana muffins and chocolate muffins. After she gave away 5/7 of the banana muffins and 1/2 of the chocolate muffins, she had twice as many as chocolate muffins as banana ...
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Formula to to calculate number of combinations?
I'm trying to find a formula for counting number combinations in a set. For example: how many ways can 4 numbers, each between 1 and 6, be added together to get the sum of 16? I apologize if I am not ...
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Probability based on a percentage
We have a group of 15 people, 7 men and 8 women.
Randomly selecting 5 people, what's the probability to pick 3 men and 2 women?
What's the probability to pick at least 1 man?
I tried solving the ...
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Fitting a logarithmic trendline on already logged values
This is the situation. I am running trials with a population simulator, which produces various outputs, with the variance of these outputs being dependent on the number of clones (recursions) the ...
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Calculate weighted percentages to incorporate discounts
I apologize if I have titled this question incorrectly.
I am selling products online. Customers can purchase the products plain, or they can purchase it with one of two logo design applications, ...
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Calculate percentage of a value between two numbers
I am wanting to know the formula of calculating the percentage of a value between two numbers, for example -65dBm is 100% signal and -93dBm is 0% signal.
I'd like to know the formula of a value ...
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Chances of winning a raffle
If there are 75 tickets and one 1st prize the chance is 1/75 x 100 in percentage terms. If the number of tickets doubles to 150 but there are now two 1st prizes (first 2 tickets drawn) do the odds of ...
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What does it mean to find percent difference when two values are equivalent?
I was asked to find the percent difference of two values (.381 and .119). To solve, I used the equation:
$amount$ $of$ $increase$ $or$ $decrease$/ $original$ $amount$
Where my answer is 220%, which ...
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Finding region of maximum efficacy
I am using Microsoft Excel to plot data. Basically, I have three sample types A , B and C of which two test were preformed with each sample. When plotting I have plotted the results with test 1 and ...
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Rolling multiple 10-sided dice or a single die + a modifier
If you have the option to roll 2 separate 10-sided dice or a single 10-sided die that you add 2 to the result with a goal of at least one die getting a specific number or higher (say 6 for the ...
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Calculating discount not working
To increase a number by a percentage I was taught the formula no x 1.percentage, so for example:
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How to calculate the success rate against non-occurring events?
I am calculating a football team's success rate ofShots Savedagainst the opposition'sShots On Targetfor every match. It's very ...
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profits increase between 1991 and 1993
"What was the percent increase in profits for Company X between 1991 and 1993?"
does this question mean that we need to calculate the 1992 profit increase as well?
I am unable to comprehend what does ...
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How do percentage discounts combine?
Say a sandwich is made of one slice of cheese, three slices of ham, and two slices of bread, and that cheese is X% off, ham is Y% off,and bread is Z% off. I don't know what the actual price of ...
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Statistical Accuracy
I was reading about statistical filters, and I came across a sentence that I didn't understand:
You might be thinking that there's not much difference between 95 percent and 99.5 percent. But you ...
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Logarithmic commission?
Let's say that I have a product which combines of two elements.
I want to set my profit margin based on each element's part. Together both elements sum up to 100%
I would like to charge more ...
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Calculating Percent Difference with zero and near zero values
I'm trying to calculate the percent difference between an expected measurement and the actual measurement. I'm using the formula
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Working out how much time has increased by in % [closed]
I have two time values:
Previous
3d 5h
Now
5d 7h
How can I work out how much it has changed by in terms of percentage.
Thanks
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% success of individual groups vs % of total successes
Edited to 8 testers (not 9)
I feel like this is probably an extremely easy question but I am unable to articulate my question to google to find an answer.
Basically, referring to the image below, ...
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Problem of percentages [closed]
Can someone explain why: 100% of 10 = 10% of 100
or
78% of 5 = 5% of 78
Open to any explanations of this
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In an election there are 1080 votes, 5 electoral candidates but only 3 available seats. Calculate minimum number of votes needed to guarantee a seat.
I've received this grade school math problem but unfortunately algebra cannot be used. I am somewhat stumped and not convinced with my own answers. Here goes:
At a grade school election, there were ...
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Calculate what the new number should be
If I know that the price for a particular product is $1750 WITH a 35% discount
How can I found out what was the original price? This is probably a simple answer but I i have tried getting 35% and ...
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Stupid question but unsure on Regression.
When I want to do a regression between daily change of currency prices and a daily stock index changes which one shall I use as the dependent and independent variable. Thanks for any help.
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Sample points logarithmically between a a range of y values
I'm sorry if this a simple question but I couldn't understand the math from example graphs I read online.
Example numbers to make this easier:
Assume x = 0 to k (but let's assume k = 20)
Assume y ...
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NCAA Bracket Odds of 2 Separate Occurrences Happening.
Ok so i'm trying to do some NCAA bracket odds and I have 6 separate things that have a certain percent chance of happening. The percentages are: ...
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How to get probability for “at least one” from multiple different percentages
I am trying to figure out some odds for a march madness bracket and I got stuck. I have a list of 6 things that could happen and each of them have different odds of happening (ranging from 85%-3%). I ...
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weight of ideal soil (given 2 different densities)
QUESTION - What is the total weight, in pounds, of $1$ cubic meter of an ideal soil including the soil solution. You can assume that the particle density of the soil solids = $2.65$ Mg/cubic meter and ...
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Is the percentage symbol a constant?
Isn't the percentage symbol actually just a constant with the value $0.01$? As in
$$
15\% = 15 \times \% = 15 \times 0.01 = 0.15.
$$
Isn't every unit actually just a constant? But why do we treat ...
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How to divide a number per zero using another informations
everyone is well?
My background for this questions is:
I have a number of sent files, also I have a number of expectedly sendt files and finally the percentage of files, so I have:
sent/expected (...
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Formula for contamination scoring system
I am trying to create a scoring system to show how contaminated a sample is.My aim is for the formula to yield one overall score, to indicate how "concerning" a sample is, i.e. the more it is ...
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Percentage split among years
Someone tells that over the next 10 years the value of a house will lose 13%.
So if the value is 10000 now, the value after 10 years will be 8700.
Now I want to generate the following table
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Is “30 times more likely” equivalent to a “3000% greater probability”?
I am trying to make a persuasive point based on facts and would like to be most accurate / clear in my point. Would "30 times more likely" be equivalent to a 3000% greater probability"
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A is x% more than B
I am taking the AMC10 test, and I don’t want to lose points on silly misunderstandings. When a question says “A is x% greater/less than B”, or things like that sometimes with money, which respect ...
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That is the value of an annuity?
The person is gaining $1000 $ on the 1st day of every month (annuity) from 2015.12 till 2018.05.31, but 2015.12 the person wants to get $1000 $ twice - on the 1st and on the 15th day of December. Find ...
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Percentage of Common [closed]
How can I calculate the percentage of in this case If 120 things are common between 149 and 160. what would be percentage of common things?
I calculated it like this 120*100(120+(149-120)+(160-120))= ...
