Percentage increase and decrease
Raise or lower prices by a percentage with one formula, and know why the same percentage up and down doesn't cancel out.
In this lesson
- Increase by a percentage:
=price*(1+rate). Decrease:=price*(1-rate). =price*rateis only the amount of the change, not the new price.- The same percent up and then down doesn't return to the start.
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8 steps: 3 explanations, 3 Do this, 2 questions, then Your turn.
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