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Calculate percentage increase

If the price of a ticket went from 5 cents to 5 dollars, what is the percentage increase?

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Percentage change = (new value -old value)/old value * 100%
If result is positive it is an increase. If it is negative it is a decrease
Here
%increase=(500-5)/5*100=9900 %

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    Sandi Nieman Dec 07, 2013

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Anonymous

  • Posted on Sep 27, 2007

SOURCE: Percentage button!!

The Casio MS-80TV requires you to input percentage calculations differently than other calculators. To calculate percentage change addition for this example, you must input "12000X20%+", for subtraction, you must input "12000x20%-".

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SOURCE: CENTS

I'm doing this from memory because my 12c is at home, but I believe that there is a "fix" key. You need to enter shift-fix-2 (this will set the decimal places to 2).
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Anonymous

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SOURCE: Calculating Percentages.

90% of 430.51

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jun 23, 2011

SOURCE: how to calculate 60 cent

$0.60/$1.00 in other words 60% of a dollar

So 60% of 203.75 = $122.25

Now $203.75 - $122.25 = $81.5

$81.5 would be what you have after you took out $0.60 per dollar

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How do I calculate percentage of increase

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What is .0162 percent of 12,500 dollars?

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Calculate percentage increase

Percentage change (increase or decrease)=(New value -Old value)/(Old value)*100%
If result is positive it is an increase. If result is negative it is decrease
For your case
% increase=28.298%=28.30%
Compare the definition above with the inflation measure and decide if they are the same.
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What is the formula to find the percent between two numbers. example: nuts cost .233 last year and this year nuts increased to .332 what is the percentage increase.

Divide .332 by .233, multiply by 100, then subtract 100.

Alternatively, since the increase in price was .099, divide .099 by .233 then multiply by 100.
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When an amount is increases by 15% it becomes $117300. Find rthe original amount.

Your problem is that of percentage increase.

To calculate that, this is what you do:

Initial amount (Initial amount * percentage) = Percentage increase.

Let us call the initial amount, x.

Then our parameters are:
Initial amount = x
Percentage = 15/100
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So,
x (x * 15/100) = 117300
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(x/1) (15x/100) = 117300
(100x 15x)/100 = 117300
115x/100 = 117300

cross multiplying
115x * 1 = 117300 * 100
115x = 11730000

dividing both sides by 115

115x/115 = 11730000/115
x = 102000.

So the original amount was $ 102000.

Hope that was helpful?
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