If you want to calculate a percentage of a number in Excel simply multiply the percentage value by the number that you want the percentage of. Generally the numbers that are converting into the percentage are given in two formats. What is 10 of 150.
Calculate a percent distribution you can use a formula that simply divides an amount by the total.
To calculate the percentage of a specific number you first convert the percentage number to a decimal. In other words percent means parts per hundred and is given by the symbol. Enter a number in cell A1. P X Y.