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Re: Math Formula Question - Need Ideas

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Adrienne Boswell wrote:

> 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.]


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Math Formula Question - Need Ideas Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> - 2014-01-05 00:26 +0000
  Re: Math Formula Question - Need Ideas Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2014-01-04 19:33 -0500
    Re: Math Formula Question - Need Ideas Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2014-01-05 17:56 +0000
      Re: Math Formula Question - Need Ideas Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-01-05 13:15 -0500
        Re: Math Formula Question - Need Ideas John Smith <johnsmithjsm@live.com> - 2014-01-07 14:57 +0000
  Re: Math Formula Question - Need Ideas The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2014-01-05 00:37 +0000
    Re: Math Formula Question - Need Ideas Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-01-04 20:20 -0500
  Re: Math Formula Question - Need Ideas Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-01-05 00:54 +0000
    Re: Math Formula Question - Need Ideas Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-01-04 20:22 -0500
      Re: Math Formula Question - Need Ideas Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2014-01-05 16:40 +0000
        Re: Math Formula Question - Need Ideas Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-01-05 13:16 -0500
          Re: Math Formula Question - Need Ideas Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> - 2014-01-05 23:09 +0000
  Re: Math Formula Question - Need Ideas Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-01-05 18:53 +0100
    Re: Math Formula Question - Need Ideas Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> - 2014-01-05 22:56 +0000
      Re: Math Formula Question - Need Ideas Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2014-01-05 18:11 -0500
      Re: Math Formula Question - Need Ideas Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2014-01-06 20:47 +0100

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