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What this expression does?

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    What this expression does?

    I need to know what the following expression does:

    in A1 I have a value, in this case 263
    in A2 I have this, 68,60%

    and in A3 I have the result of A1/A2, but I don't know what the excel does to get this result: 383,38

    Anyone knows the kind of calculate that the excel does??

    I'm using excel 2007.

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    It divides A1 by A2 and returns the result.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shg
    It divides A1 by A2 and returns the result.
    But the problem was the result, I just discovery that first he divide the 68,60% by 1 and then divide the 263 by 0,686, giving the result.

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    Anything divided by 1 is, by definition, the number you started with, so dividing 68.6% by 1 gives 68.6%. Mathematically, dividing by 1 does nothing to affect the result.

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    Quote Originally Posted by massaoh
    I need to know what the following expression does:

    in A1 I have a value, in this case 263
    in A2 I have this, 68,60%

    and in A3 I have the result of A1/A2, but I don't know what the excel does to get this result: 383,38

    Anyone knows the kind of calculate that the excel does??

    I'm using excel 2007.
    Hi,

    Try this in A3

    =A1/(A2/100)

    Result = 383.3819
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