On the Home tab in the Number group click the percentage symbol to apply a Percentage format. Find Percentage of a Number. As you probably remember from high school math class a percentage is a fraction of 100 that is calculated by dividing the numerator by the denominator and multiplying the result by 100.
How to Calculate Percentages.
Take an example if you had 10 strawberries and you ate 2 then you have consumed 20 percent of strawberries out of all and left with 80 percent of the things. Multiply it by 6 to find 6. Although the percentage formula can be written in different forms it is essentially an algebraic equation involving three values. P is the percentage V 1 is the first value that the percentage will modify and V 2 is the result of the percentage operating on V 1.