Percentages
Everything on SkillVeris tagged Percentages — collected across the glossary, study notes, blog, and cheat sheets.
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How to Solve Percentage Problems
Percentage problems are solved by treating "percent" as "per hundred": x% of a number is (x/100) × number, and a percentage change is (change ÷ original) × 100.
How to Solve Successive Percentage Change Problems
Successive percentage changes never add or subtract directly; two changes of a% and b% combine to a net change of a + b + (ab/100) percent, where a negative si…
How to Solve Discount and Marked Price Problems
Selling price equals marked price minus discount, SP = MP x (1 - discount%/100), and successive discounts must be chained as multiplying factors rather than ad…
How to Solve False Weight Profit Problems
A dealer using a false weight but claiming a genuine or fixed profit percentage earns an actual profit of Profit% = (True Weight - False Weight) / False Weight…
How to Solve Percentage Population Growth Problems
Population growth at a fixed percentage rate compounds exactly like compound interest, so a population P growing at r% per year for n years becomes P×(1+r/100)…
How to Solve Election and Votes Percentage Problems
Election vote problems are solved by first isolating the valid votes (total votes minus invalid ones), then treating each candidate’s share as a straightforwar…
How to Solve Percentage Exam Marks Problems
Exam marks percentage problems are solved by converting every percentage back to actual marks using Marks = Percentage × Maximum Marks / 100, then comparing ac…