How do I turn a percent into a number? - Answers

Here's how I did it. First I take the percent and turn it into a fraction, lets take 73% as an example. that is 73/100, because you can't break it down any more you leave it as is. To get the whole number you do the following formula: y=(100*x)/73 where x = the percent to get the percent from the whole number you can do this: x=(73*y)/100 where y= the whole number So lets say you're wanting to see how much money you will need to make, where the tax is 27% (wouldn't that be nice :P) Lets say your total expenses say you should make 7.32/hr (total expenses per month/160 work hours) (100*7.32) = 732 732/73 = 10.027397260273972602739726027397 so you would need to make $10.03 to meet the bare minimum. have a nice day :D