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Snin
11-28-2013, 02:27 PM
to original number ?

eg. I have some numbers which have been marked up 40% so I need to take this off to find original number ( so I can then work out a 17% surchare of that) then add that to my original marked up 40% number.

I think Im being :homer: so far taking off 28% gets very close to returning a number to its original if you had 40% of it.

120 + 40% = 168 - 28% = 120.96 ... whats the formula though for it to be exact and work on any number so I can knock up a spreadsheet to do it..im being thick.. and cant even find it on google!

HomerJ
11-28-2013, 02:29 PM

Snin
11-28-2013, 02:31 PM

7evens
11-28-2013, 02:45 PM
If you know 1% of any number, in this case 1.2 then finding out 100% is then straight forward.