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In this tutorial, you will lean a quick way to calculate percentages in Excel, find the basic percentage formula and a few more formulas for calculating percentage increase, percent of total and more. Continue reading →

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  1. can u give me solution about this
    =(130-80)*8+800+6.45*50 calculate total amt less 10% and show last amt 1370

  2. I want know this

    value is 3410
    after percentage = 1747.68
    so want what is percentage in this value

    1. 1747.68/3410

  3. Thank you so much.. its very useful. Thumbs'up.

  4. I've created a spreadsheet that shows how often a report is printed vs when it's not my cells are populated by "yes" and "no". I would like to calculate the total percentage of "yes" in each column. How do I create a formula that can calculate how often the word "yes" appears in each column?

  5. I am trying to add a number to a percentage formula. My current formula is: O143+O143*Q143, which equates to a number in "O143" multiplied by a percentage in "Q143". After that is calculated, I want to add a number that is not affected by the percentage to the total in the first equation. For example, the number in O143 is $5,999.58 and the percentage in Q143 is 3%. The number to add, $75.64, is in N143. I have tried doing "+N143" but that does not give me the correct total. The total should come out to be: $6,255.21. Please provide help to this formula to come to the correct total.

    1. The equation should be =(O143*Q143)+(N143+O143)

  6. I want to see the % increase in excel from Value A to Value B
    Value A = 0
    Value B = 455

    Formula Applied (B-A)/A, but it gives #DIV/0. Can I get the % in results instead?

    1. The Microsoft Excel Help site has a good explanation of working with this situation. Search "How to correct a #DIV/0! error" and you'll see the work a-rounds.

  7. Hello

    I would like a formula to show total less %
    ie Column A $100 column B to show $12.00 (12% of 100)
    When I put in formula it shows % (8800%) not total dollars.
    formula used =A1*(1-12%)

    Thank you for your help.

  8. find the excel formular for total,average and percentage. pls help me out sir god bless you.

  9. Hi, I have 5 people submitting their ranking for 24 topics. How do I take all of the data and sort to show which topic is the most important to least important of all 24? I can add each row, and then sort high to low.... is there another way to show percentage wise?

  10. How to calculate :

    QUANTITY UNIT PER PRICE TOTAL PRICE
    120UNIT 88
    105 METRE 110
    85 TEA CUP 5
    100 PATIENTS 150

  11. Given time period nd workers how to calculate percent ???

  12. Time members percent
    12-2.59Am 188 ??

  13. SIR I REQUEST TO SOLVE MY PROBLEM. MY PROBLEM IS TO WRIT (50 SET) IN SINGLE CELL AND I WANT TO MULTIPLY BY 5 BUT ITS SHOW ERROR

  14. Avail From A From B Utilization
    17 5 1 ?%

    I have a muliti sheet spreed sheet, calculating utilisation of seats in a vehicle. In the example above, there are 17 seats available. The vehicle stops twice and collects 5 pax from staop A and 1 pax from stop B.

    What is the formula for calculating the percentage utilisation.
    Many thanks

  15. kindly help me solve the following

    original price: $421.95
    discounted price: $359.96

    savings: $61.99

    in terms of percentage, how many percent was saved? Please show me the formula

    Thanks

  16. hello, i need a help,
    how to calculate the precentage between two invoice

  17. 100% = 70% of A and 30% of B. then how to calculate the 120% of A and 70% of B

    A=54
    B=201

  18. if a 54=70% then what is 90% of 54?

  19. example:In a department there are 10 employees ,total number of leaves taken by them is 25 how to calculate leave % of that department

  20. " if a1=apple and b1= india so c1= count 1 " please put the formula

  21. easy to learning and elaborative.. thanks.

  22. Poster's, Don't forget to say please and thank you.
    These people are trying to help you with your problems.

  23. Dear Sir,

    Can you adv us, how can i apply percantage on all sheet only one colume

    suppose i had the rate sheet & i want to added 5% on all sheet that what i do

    thank

  24. Dear sir,
    hope your are fine, kindly solve my this problem i want to take 50 percentage of 37800 in other column in excel sheet. how i can do this.

    God Bless you.
    Regards
    Atif Durrani

    1. Hello,

      If I understand your task correctly, please try the following formula:

      =A1*50%

      Where cell A1 is “37800”

      Hope this will help.

  25. Cell
    A. B. C
    150. A.ke1to100ke5%.
    A.ke baki
    Bache 101> ke 10%

  26. I want to get this formula
    Cell A ki 1to100 Tak ki 5% Kya hota hai

  27. I have an Annual Budget of $1,450,00, I need to insert formulas that will calculate total amount for each department based on the specified percentage of the annual budget

    1. Hello,

      If I understand your task correctly, please try the following formula:

      =A1*25%

      where cell A1 is “$1,450,00”

      Hope this will help you!

  28. I have a simple issue that I don't know how to do since I am not a financial person.
    Cell A I have amount to receive from my clients, Cell B I have to pay the money to get the job/product. I need cell C to show what percent I have made out of it. Hope you understand. Thank you in advance. TC

    1. Hello,

      If I understand your task correctly, please try the following formula:

      =(A1-B1)/100

      Hope this will help you!

  29. If we want to increase or decrease percentage, suppose a-b/a*100%, If a is zero than what will happen.

  30. How to calculate the % of specific text in Excel:

    For example:

    Orange
    Orange
    Red
    Blue
    Blue
    Blue
    Red
    Red
    Orange
    Orange

    What is the %'of red, blue and Orange? How to come up with a formula in Excel?

    1. Hello,

      Supposing you have a list of text data in column A, you can use the following formulas:

      =COUNTIF(A:A,"Orange")/COUNTIF(A:A,"<>")

      =COUNTIF(A:A,"Red")/COUNTIF(A:A,"<>")

      =COUNTIF(A:A,"Blue")/COUNTIF(A:A,"<>")

      Hope it will help you.

  31. Hello, I need to Calculate the percentage (%) of income that is being contributed to retirement in B20.
    Gross Income:B12 $45,926.40
    My Contribution:B14 $6,888.96
    Roth IRA:B16 $3,600
    Total Retirement Contributions:B17 $12,785.28

    Thank you

    1. Hello,

      If I understand your task correctly, please try the following formula:

      =(B14+B16+B17)/B12

      Please check that the Percentage format is applied to cell B20. To do this, open the Format Cells dialog either by pressing Ctrl + 1 or right-clicking the cell and selecting Format Cells… from the context menu. Make sure the Percentage category is selected and specify the desired number of decimal places in the Decimal places box.

      Hope it will help you.

  32. Now sorted.
    Thank you for the reply I received to my email. ;)
    Solution is to divide the amount of loan by the percentage.
    I. e 500000k:80%= the amount needed

  33. We have several loan amounts, but don’t know the security?
    But been told all these had been offered at a maximum 80% LTV of the loan amount.
    Is there an easy way to calculate the amount of the original security?

  34. Hi can anyone help?
    I need to make sure a loan value remain at 80% or above of a security.
    Example: amount of loan 500000k*80%=? Unknown security
    What is the amount of security needed to make sure a loan of 500000k stays at 80% ltv?

  35. hi im cal % current cost and sell price answer = 1.25%
    how do i change answer to show 25%

  36. Hi sir i want percentage formula. Question is 9 answer 9.0 i want this question answer and formula.

  37. its good help for me

  38. HI, ACTUALY I WANA KNOW HOW TO CALCULATE PERCENTAGE WISE RECOVERY EXP.
    OPENING BAL + SAL - RECOVER PAYMENT NOW I WANA KNOW HOW MUCH % RECOVER OUR REVENUE

  39. hai, how to find the margin difference between new quoted price & requested price ?please guide me.

    for example : quoted price is : sgd 80 & requested price is 30sgd
    so base on the formula :
    =(80-30)/30 : i get percentage of :166.67%
    is it correct?

  40. is good calculation

  41. Hello,
    Can you help please, I am trying to find the average % of a row of numbers and how to formulate it on excel sheet, the average of the row must calculate to higher or lower than 90%.
    hope you understand what i mean
    many thanks Tony

  42. how can you find the average and total when you have salary, allowances,gross pay, tax(16%),and net pay.

    1. Formula,=AVERAGE,(all the numbers)

    2. please I really need it

  43. Hi
    I have 3 values in 3 column (e,f,g)e is booked patient,f is seen patients and g the number of no shows. to obtain g I have formulated the cell to =(E28-F28)/E28 e.g to give me a percentage of no shows.
    however when I have zero values in E and F I get this error message #DIV/O in G.
    I cannot seam to find the right equations to reflect g as a 0% until numbers have been populated in e and f.
    any recommendation gratefully appreciated
    regards

    1. Hi, Grag,

      the point is that when a number is divided by zero (0), Excel shows the #DIV/0! error. It happens with your formula when there's nothing in F28 cell. Please try the following formula in G28 instead:
      =IF(F2>0,(E2-F2)/F2,0)

      If you want to learn more about the IF function, please have a look at our article that explains how the functions works.

  44. 10-2%=9.8
    TELL ME FORMULA

    1. Hello, Ram,

      If you take a quick look at this point of the article, you'll see that to decrease an amount by a percentage you need to build the following formula:
      = Amount * (1 - %)

      For instance, the formula =10*(1-2%) reduces the value by 2%. Don't forget to set Number as a number format.

  45. I Wanna calculate in percent
    e.g.: for $350 i want to add 20%

    And for each $ less than $350 should be added 5.7% more to the 20%
    e.g.: for $349 should be added 25.7% and for $348 should be added 31.4% etc.

    How can I write it in a formula in excel ?

    Thanks
    Catalog Manager

    1. A B C D
      350 20 0 0
      349 20 5.7 25.7
      348 20 5.7 31.4
      347 20 5.7 37.1
      346 20 5.7 42.8
      345 20 5.7 48.5
      344 20 5.7 54.2
      343 20 5.7 59.9
      342 20 5.7 65.6
      341 20 5.7 71.3
      340 20 5.7 77
      339 20 5.7 82.7

      FORMULA IN D IS AS FOLLOWS
      =B2+($C$2*(ROW()-1))

  46. Maths=34
    Physics=45
    Biology=55
    Total=300
    Find percentage in exel give formula

    1. Name Maths Physics Biology Total Marks Obtained Percentage
      A 34 45 55 300 134 44.66666667
      Formula for Percentage-
      (Marks Obtained/Total Marks)*100

    2. I also don't know

  47. I don't think this has been covered. Sorry if it has.
    I'm try to work out how many more are required to hit a certain %.

    For example 10 items with 3 attachments.
    How many more need to be sold with attachment to get to 60%.
    I know there would need to be another 8 sold with attachments to get about 60%.
    11/18*100 = 61.1%

    I want to be able to change the % of attachments.

    so if > 60% then you are ahead, but if less then 60% you need to get the next X with attachment to get above 60%

    Thanks for any help.

  48. How do i get rid of divx errors when trying to work out growth percentages as per example below:

    =(U21-T21)/T21

    Always shows divx when it is dividing by 0 and this makes spreadsheet look unprofessional and i am struggling with the iferror formula to help with this kind of error.

    1. try =iferror((u21-t21)/t21),)
      That should leave it blank

  49. Hello All,

    Can someone advise me how i can get 0% in sales volume column in Excel?

    When i put below formula 100% appears, where i wish to have 0%.

    Units available (B7)/ Units sold (C7)/ Sale volume (%)
    2 2 =B7/C7*100%

  50. I am trying to figure out how to charge my adult children rent for the amount I am in the hole every month. I am in the whole $2,000 a month. I want to figure out how much each person will pay by there yearly income. Some make 40K, some 20K and 12K. Also, what is the formula to check the calculation.

    1. I would sum the total income (say total income is $100,000). Then determine each person's percentage of the income (whoever makes 12k would be 12%, and so on). Then you'd use that percentage to determine that person's share of rent (the person who makes 12k would pay $240).

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