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Originally Posted by Spartarus
...Ah, don't be mad, but you're using the wrong equation there.
you can't multiply the dependent variable by a percentage to get the starting number. Do the proof, that equation isn't reversible. We aren't calculating a 13 percent increase from 174, we're reversing a 13 percent loss to solve for x. |
You are of course correct. But I was able to do the calc I provided in my head to see that the numbers did not make sense.
Doing it my way was close (enough for sanity check) but not correct. Thanks for the correction.