SOLUTION: if my commission is 32$ which is 2 percent of total cost of project how I find the remaining 98 percent? Please share the formula too

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Question 1035020: if my commission is 32$ which is 2 percent of total cost of project how I find the remaining 98 percent? Please share the formula too
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Let represent the remaining 98%. Then is the total cost of the project. Since 2% of the total project is $32,



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John

My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it