Percentage calculator

Find the amount
Find the total amount
Percentage increase or decrease
Find the reduced price
Find the increased price
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What is a percentage calculator?

A percentage calculator helps you easily work out percentages. No pen and paper or old-fashioned calculators needed.

Whether you need to work out the sales price, interest rates, statistics or probability—the percentage calculator from Conta can help you:

  • Easy and quick percentage calculations
  • Free to use
  • All the formulas you need
What is a percentage calculator?
How are percentages used?
  • Price discounts, for example 20% off a t-shirt
  • Sales tax, usually a percentage of the sales price, for example 10%
  • Tip, usually a percentage of the price, for example 15% of the price of a meal
  • Interest rates for savings accounts, for example 1% annually
  • Interest rates for credit cards or mortgages, for example 2.5% anually
  • Changes in interest rate, for example a change from 2% to 3%
  • Credit card rewards, for example 2% cash back on purchases
  • Statistics, for example to show employment rates, survey results, approval ratings and so on
  • Electronic devices have a percentage indicator to show remaining battery power
  • Weather forecast, for example a 20% chance of rain or 60% humidity
  • Probability is expressed as percentage, for example a 10% chance of winning
How are percentages used?

The percentage calculator explained

Find the amount

With this formula, you can work out what a percentage of an amount is, for example 20% of 100. Just enter the numbers, and the calculator will tell you the answer!

The formula looks like this:

Percentage x amount, for example

0.20 x 100 = 20

Find the total amount

With this formula, you can work out the total amount from a percentage, for example, 100 is 20% of what? The calculator helps you quickly and easily work it out.

The formula looks like this:

Amount / percentage, for example

100 / 0.20 = 500

Percentage increase or decrease

This formula helps you work out what percentage a number has increased or decreased by, for example how many percent increase is 100 to 500. If the percentage is negative, the number has decreased, if it’s positive, the number has increased.

The formula looks like this:

(New number – original number) / original number * 100, for example

(500 – 100) / 100 * 100 = 400

Find the reduced price

Work out a price with a percentage reduction, for example 250 minus 20%.

The formula looks like this:

Amount – (amount * percentage), for example

250 – (250 * 0.20) = 200

Find the increased price

Work out the price with a percentage increase, for example 250 plus 20%.

The formula looks like this:

Amount + (amount * percentage), for example

250 + (250 * 0.20) = 300

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions about the percentage calculator

What is a percentage?

A percentage is a way to express a number as a fraction of 100, it can be used to represent portions, for example if there are 100 horses, and 50 of them are brown, then 50% of the horses are brown.

It can also be used or to compare two numbers, for example if a t-shirt increased in price from 100 to 150, it represents a 50% increase in the price. Percentages are shown with a percentage symbol %.

How to calculate percentage?

To work out the percentage of a number, you can take the percentage times the amount. For example if you’re getting a 20% discount off $500, the formula would look like this:
0.20 x 500 = 100. You’d get a $100 discount.

If you were getting a 10% discount, the formula would be 0.10 x 500 = $50.

You can also use a free percentage calculator to easily work out percentages.

How much is 20% out of 70?

20% of 70 can be worked out by multiplying the percentage by the amount, in this case 0.20 x 70 = 14. 20% of 70 is 14.

You can also use a free percentage calculator to easily work out what 20% of 70 is.

What will be 20% of 100?

To work out 20% of 100, you multiply the percentage by the amount. The calculation would look like this:
0.20 x 100 = 20

20% of 100 is 20.

You can also use a free percentage calculator to easily work out what 20% of 100 is.

What number is 46% of 350?

To figure out what 46% of 350 is, you multiply the amount by the percentage, in this case 0.46 x 350 = 161. So 46% of 350 is 161.

You can also use a free percentage calculator to easily work out what 46% of 350 is.

Is there a formula for percentages?

Yes, there are many formulas, depending on what you want to work out. To work out what the percentage of an amount is you multiply the percentage by the amount, for example 0.20 x 100 to work out 20% of 100.

If you want to work out the percentage increase or decrease, you use this formula:
(New number – original number) / original number * 100, for example
(500 – 100) / 100 * 100 = 400

You can also use a free percentage calculator to easily work out percentages.

How do you find 20% of an amount?

To work out what 20% of an amount is you take 0.20 times the amount. If the amount is 500, the calculation would be 0.20 x 500 = ,100.

You can also use a free percentage calculator to easily work out the percentage of an amount.

How to calculate 30% of a number?

To work out what 30% of a number is, you take 0.30 times the number. If the number is 200, the calculation is 0.30 x 200 = 60.

You can also use a free percentage calculator to easily work out what 30% of a number is.

Why are percentages important?

Percentages are used for many different things, for example discounts, taxes, statistics, likelihoods and interest. It’s important to be able to accurately calculate percentages, and with a percentage calculator it’s easier than ever before.

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