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Calculating Percentages in Excel
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I have three columns as below Unit Price ABC Company Price EFG Company Price Not Known 40% discount 30% Discount Not Known 20% discount 30% Discount I am getting a little confused because there seems to be in the Excel help file different ways to calculate, and I keep getting different answers! I need to work out firstly what the Unit price is, and I need to work it out from the discount given to EFG Company (ie 30%). From that, once I work out the Unit Price I can work out what I will be selling my goods at to ABC Company. My problem is, I have never been good with maths and have been told that just putting on 30% will not give me a correct answer, I should use a decimal point ie 0.50 (which I think is 50%) or 0.70 for 30%. Can someone help me here as I have messed about with this all morning and got nowhere fast Thanks |
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Your column formatting got a bit mixed up when pasted in but if you want to reduce a value by (say) 15% use this formula =A2*(1-0.15) Where A2 is the value you want to reduce Simply change the 0.15 to reduce by other amounts. Mike " wrote: Hi I have three columns as below Unit Price ABC Company Price EFG Company Price Not Known 40% discount 30% Discount Not Known 20% discount 30% Discount I am getting a little confused because there seems to be in the Excel help file different ways to calculate, and I keep getting different answers! I need to work out firstly what the Unit price is, and I need to work it out from the discount given to EFG Company (ie 30%). From that, once I work out the Unit Price I can work out what I will be selling my goods at to ABC Company. My problem is, I have never been good with maths and have been told that just putting on 30% will not give me a correct answer, I should use a decimal point ie 0.50 (which I think is 50%) or 0.70 for 30%. Can someone help me here as I have messed about with this all morning and got nowhere fast Thanks |
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Calculating Percentages in Excel
You can work with percentages you don't have to use decimals, and it makes
it easier to read. If the discount is 30%, and the original price is 2.57, then the discounted price is =2.57-(2.57*30%) that is the price - (the price multiplied by the discount). You might want to round it to 2 dec pl =ROUND(2.57-(2.57*30%),2) If the discount is 30% and the discounted price is say 2.99, then the unit price, rounded, is =ROUND(2.99/(100%-30%),2) -- --- HTH Bob (there's no email, no snail mail, but somewhere should be gmail in my addy) " wrote in message ... Hi I have three columns as below Unit Price ABC Company Price EFG Company Price Not Known 40% discount 30% Discount Not Known 20% discount 30% Discount I am getting a little confused because there seems to be in the Excel help file different ways to calculate, and I keep getting different answers! I need to work out firstly what the Unit price is, and I need to work it out from the discount given to EFG Company (ie 30%). From that, once I work out the Unit Price I can work out what I will be selling my goods at to ABC Company. My problem is, I have never been good with maths and have been told that just putting on 30% will not give me a correct answer, I should use a decimal point ie 0.50 (which I think is 50%) or 0.70 for 30%. Can someone help me here as I have messed about with this all morning and got nowhere fast Thanks |
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