| Re: Math Formula Question - Need Ideas [message #184528 is a reply to message #184526] |
Sun, 05 January 2014 23:11   |
Jerry Stuckle
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On 1/5/2014 5:56 PM, Adrienne Boswell wrote:
> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars(at)web(dot)de> wrote
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>> Adrienne Boswell wrote:
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>>> Someone goes to a store and has $100.00 worth of items. The merchant
>>> gives the customer a 10% discount, so only $90.00 is sent to the
>>> bank. Of the original amount, $10.00 goes to the customer for the
>>> discount, $80.00 goes to the merchant, $10.00 goes for a processing
>>> fee. But those amounts have to be calced on the original amount, not
>>> what the bank got. I need a formula to find the original amount if I
>>> have the percentage (10%) and the amount the bank got ($90.00). I
>>> know in my head that the original amount is $100.00, but I have to do
>>> it programatically.
>>>
>>> I know this is probably dead simple, but I just can't get my head
>>> around it.
>>
>> Do your own homework.
>>
>> [You cannot be serious asking a question regarding simple arithmetic
>> (percentage calculation, for crying out loud) in a newsgroup for a
>> programming language — without showing any attempt to solve it by
>> yourself, I should add.]
>>
>>
>> PointedEars
>
> Yes, I can be serious asking a question like this. Have you ever looked
> at something you spelled correctly, and it doesn't look right?
> Sometimes, I think something is harder than it is, and confuse myself.
> That's what happened here.
>
>
Adrienne,
Don't pay any attention to Pointed Head. He's just being his usual
pedantic self.
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