Scientific American presents Math Dude by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. Long time math fans may remember our first foray into the world ...

Let's face it: Even the best budgets can't always predict your actual expenses. Things happen. Unexpected costs arise. That's life. That's why it's so useful to review your budget after a project is ...

If you are using Microsoft Excel to manage numerical data, at some point you're inevitably going to display percentages. Doing so can give you a new insight, or make summarizing heaps of data a bit ...

Calculating profit as a percentage of revenue shows relative profitability, like Apple's 30.5% vs Fitbit's 20.5%. Common size income statements allow comparisons across companies and time by ...

This post explains how to calculate Weighted Average in Excel with percentages. In a standard arithmetic average where the sum of values is divided by the number of values, each data value is treated ...

Social Security's 2026 Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) Predictions Are Ticking Upward. Here's Why That's Not a Good Thing. To calculate the average percentage difference over time, you'll need to ...

A Treasury bill, or T-bill, is a short-term government debt security with a maturity of less than one year. Unlike many other debt securities that make regular interest payments to investors, Treasury ...

Let's face it: Even the best budgets can't always predict your actual expenses. Things happen. Unexpected costs arise. That's life. That's why it's so useful to review your budget after a project is ...

One way to find a percentage of an amount is to use 1%, 10% and 50% as building blocks. 1%, 10% and 50% can be used as building blocks for working out percentages in your head. 1% is 1⁄100. Work out 1 ...