Thursday, 25 July 2019

Maths Trick

This blog is not just about things I like, I hope it could be a constructive thing that the community finds useful.

Anyway

I have a trick for quickly working out percentages.

To know the percentage of a price I move the decimal place of the percent 2 places then multiply by the price.

5 percent would be Price X 0.05
20 percent would be Price X 0.20

If I wanted to add percent I would add 1.0 to the percentage

Adding 5 percent would be Price X 1.05
Adding 20 percent would be Price X 1.20

If I wanted to subtract a percentage I would take away the percentage from 100 then multiply by the new percent.

Subtracting 5 percent would be Price X 0.95
Subtracting 20 percent would be Price X 0.80

That's it.

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