Subject: Re-Percentaging
Name: Doug

Question:
My mind has gone blank. I have a series of percentages which have been establised by the same base number. I need to remove one of the percentages (13%) leaving me with 87%. I need to arifically inflate the remaining percentages to total 100%. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Doug

Hi Doug

You originally had a base number, b, of items divided into categories. If some particular category had c items in it then the percentage in that category is (c/b)x100. Now you want to remove one of the categories that has 13% of the items so the resulting new base number is 87% of b, that is (87/100)xb. The resulting fraction of the items in this category is now


That is the new percentage in this category is the original percentage divided by 87.

Cheers
Penny

 

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