Showing posts with label Find Percentage Increase. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Find Percentage Increase. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Finding the Percentage of one number and another


In mathematics, a word problem for a set S with respect to a system of finite encoding of its elements is the algorithmic problem of deciding whether two given representatives represent the same element of the set. Percentage is a way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100. It is often denoted using the percent sign, "%". In this article we shall discuss finding the percentage of one number and another number example problem. (Source: Wikipedia)

Finding the percentage of one number and another example problem

To finding the percentage of one number and another following formula used

Percentage formula = Changes in value   x 100%
                                    Original value

Example 1:

Find how much percentage increase from the number 80 to 95.5?

Solution:

Increased value = new value – old value

Increase value = 95.5 – 80 = 15.5

Percentage increase = `15.5/80` x 100%

Increased percentage = 19.3%

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Example 2:

Find how much percentage decrease from the number 105 to 95.5?

Solution:

Decrease value = new value – old value

Decrease value = 95.5 – 105 = 9.5

Percentage decrease = `9.5/105` x100%

Decreased percentage = 9%

Example 3:

Jasmine last month earned salary `$` 1250. He earned this month salary `$` 1600. Find how many percentage increases in her salary amount.

Solution:

Jasmine increased salary = new salary – original salary

`$` 1600 –`$` 1250 = 350

Salary percentage increase = `350/1250` x100% = 28%

Jasmine increased salary percentage is 28%

Example 4:

Kishore last month earned salary `$` 1800. He earned this month salary `$` 1500. Find how much percentage decreased in his salary amount.

Solution:

Kishore decreased salary = new salary – original salary

`$` 1500 –`$` 1800 = 300

Salary percentage increase = `300/1800` x100%= 16.6%

Kishore decreases salary percentage is 16.6%

Finding the percentage of one number and another practice problem

Problem 1:

Joes last month earned salary `$` 1550. He earned this month salary` $` 1800. Find Percentage Increase in her salary amount.

Answer:

Joes increased salary percentage is 13.8%

Problem 2:

Ram last month earned salary `$` 1300. He earned this month salary `$` 600. Find how much percentage decreased in his salary amount.

Answer:

Ram decreases salary percentage is 53.8%