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Percentage Calculator

Percentages show up everywhere — tipping at restaurants, sale prices at the mall, grade calculations at school, interest rates at the bank. Our free percentage calculator solves all the common variants in one place: "what is X% of Y?", "X is what % of Y?", "X increased by Y%?", and the inverse questions. No more squinting at the iPhone calculator trying to remember which way the formula goes.

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Percentage Formulas

What is X% of Y?

Result = (X / 100) × Y

X is what % of Y?

Result = (X / Y) × 100

Percentage change from X to Y

Result = ((Y − X) / |X|) × 100

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About the Percentage Calculator

Percentages show up everywhere — tipping at restaurants, sale prices at the mall, grade calculations at school, interest rates at the bank. Our free percentage calculator solves all the common variants in one place: "what is X% of Y?", "X is what % of Y?", "X increased by Y%?", and the inverse questions. No more squinting at the iPhone calculator trying to remember which way the formula goes.

How to use it

  1. Pick which calculation type you need from the tabs (% of a number, find the %, % change, increase/decrease).
  2. Enter the two known values.
  3. The answer updates instantly. Copy or use in your next calculation.

Formula & methodology

X% of Y = (X/100) × Y | X is what % of Y = (X/Y) × 100 | % change = ((New − Old)/Old) × 100

Common use cases

  • Calculating tips, sales tax, or service charges
  • Working out a discount percentage on a sale item
  • Computing grade weights for a class
  • Comparing percentage changes between two values
  • Estimating commission on a sale

Frequently asked questions

20% of 75 is 15 (because 0.20 × 75 = 15).
Subtract the new value from the old value, divide by the old value, multiply by 100. E.g. 50 → 40 is a 20% decrease: (50−40)/50 × 100 = 20%.
No. If a rate moves from 5% to 7%, that is a 2 percentage point increase but a 40% relative increase. Common source of confusion in news articles.

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