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RP asked in Science & MathematicsMathematics · 1 decade ago

Help with percentages, please?

Hi, Could someone please help me get my head around the following? Keeping the numbers simple, if a company's turnover one week was £100, and the next week it was £880, is this an 880% increase or an 8.8% increase?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    880% (the number of hundreds in the second one is the number of multiples there is)

    so if it was 70% and the original was £200 then the new version would be £140

    or 150% of £200 is £300

  • 1 decade ago

    Percent increase (or decrease) is found by first calculating the difference between the initial amount (100) and the final amount (880), and then dividing by the initial amount:

    The percent increase is then (880 - 100)/880 = 780/100 = 7.8 = 780%.

    You can also say that 880 is 880% of 100.

  • 1 decade ago

    (1)£100 divided by £88O

    (2)Answer multiply with 100%

    100/880 X 100

    =100/88X10

    =8.8%

    Hope you understand!

    Source(s): ME!
  • 1 decade ago

    880-100=780

    780÷880x100=88% increase

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  • 1 decade ago

    It would be 880%

    1% is a one Hundreth

    so for £100

    1% is £1

    10% is £10

    100% is £100

    880% is £880

    8.8% of £100 is £8.80p

    As 1% is a one Hundreth

    50% off something in the sales is 50 / 100 or one half (Half price)

    Hope this helps

  • 1 decade ago

    an 8.8% increase will be 100*8.8%=8.8

    880% will be 100*880%=880

  • 1 decade ago

    I am surprised only one correct answer so far,

    880-100 = 780

    780/100 * 100 = 78%

  • sv
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    % increase

    = (increase / initial)100%

    = {(880--100)/100}100%

    = 780%

  • T
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    [(880-100)/100}100 = 780% increase

    (Difference/Original) x 100 = % change

  • Klick
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    880% increase!!!!

    if it was 8.8% the total wud be £108.80!

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