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I am no math expert, so I apprciate the insight.

In Excel, if I have a base of 100 and I gross it up by 10%, I've seen
two equations:

=100*(1+10%) and;
=100/(1-10%)

can someone explain to me which is the best one and also the
differences between the two?

Thank you.


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