Can you change the base number from 100 to something else with %'s

When calculating percentages? (I want to change it to 40)....

10/40 = 25%
10/100 = 10%
HTH,
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Gary Brown
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"Jarod" wrote:

> When calculating percentages? (I want to change it to 40)....

Technically this answer is incorrect. Though it probably provides what the
OP was requesting.

From a technical standpoint the base of a percent is by definition 100.
(Cent=100)

Using your examples

10/40 = 25% means 25 per hundred not per forty

If the base were 40 then the "perforty" would be 10.

PC

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> 10/40 = 25%
> 10/100 = 10%
> HTH,
> --
> Gary Brown
> [email protected]
>
>
> "Jarod" wrote:
>
> > When calculating percentages? (I want to change it to 40)....