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Sun 24 Jul, 2005 08:23 pm
Hi,
I found that I am weak in calculating percentages.
Could you please suggest ways of learning this well. Some good websites would be very useful for me.
Questions like
Price of a share was : 4000
Now the price is : 5000.
What is the percentage increase?
this is a very simple question but I get so confused.
Please help.
Regards
Bhairavan (sriram)
Dr. Math is a pretty good source. He has some pretty good examples and word problems involving percentages in the middle school library.
Remember percentage is effectively decimal notation multiplied by 100.
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Quote:Price of a share was : 4000
Now the price is : 5000.
What is the percentage increase?
1) find the increase. 5000-4000, it increased by 1000
2) then find what percent this increase was by dividing it. 1000/4000 = 1/4 = 0.25, so it is a 25% increase
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