Simple formulas can help you find the percentage of a total such as the percentage difference between two numbers. Let's say that you answered 42 questions out of 50 correctly on a test. What is the percentage of correct answers? Select any blank cell. Type =42/50, and then press RETURN . The result is 0.84. More @Wikipedia
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