How do you calculate what percentage of a number another number is?

I am confronted with this problem regularly and either I am away or someone else gets it done in my stead, never with me finding out how to do it. I am afraid to look stupid at work being one of the bosses, but I need to know this, and high school was long ago..lolHow do you calculate what percentage of a number another number is?
Like, what percentage of 6 is the number 3?



3/6 x 100 == 50%



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I think that you mean, find "percent increase"



New number minus old number, divided by old number and multiply by 100.



(1300-170)/(170) x 100% = (1130)/170 x 100% == 664.7%









Or, if you are really lazy, you could just use this:How do you calculate what percentage of a number another number is?
I think you may be asking how do you find the percentage of another number. If thats what your asking, you take the percent, like 30%, and move the decimal place over 2 places from in front of the 0. so it would be .30 Then you take that number and multiply it by the other number. Hope that helps :)How do you calculate what percentage of a number another number is?
Fractions.



ie. 30/40 = .75 = 75%



Your months quota is 10,000, and the yearly is 120,000 so you have 10,000/120,000 = .83 = 83%
well i think this is waht u mean, take this for example. if u want to know what percent 17 is of 83, then divide 17 by 83 and multiply it by 100 then bingo there u go

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