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
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
- Pick which calculation type you need from the tabs (% of a number, find the %, % change, increase/decrease).
- Enter the two known values.
- 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
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