Get percentage discount

Get percentage discount

Generic formula 

= 1 - (discount_price / original_price)

Explanation

If you have a discounted price and an original price, and you want to know the discount as a percentage, you can calculate the percentage discount using a formula that pides the discounted price by the original price and then subtracts the result from one.

How the formula works

In the example, the active cell contains this formula:

=1-(D5/C5)

In this case, Excel first pides the discounted price in D5 (59.5) by the original price in C5 (70) to get 0.85, which is then subtracted from 1:

=1-(59.5/70)
=1-0.85
=0.15

Note that the result is a decimal version of the percent, and must be formatted using the Percentage number format in Excel to display as a percentage.

Get percentage discount

Generic formula 

= 1 - (discount_price / original_price)

Explanation

If you have a discounted price and an original price, and you want to know the discount as a percentage, you can calculate the percentage discount using a formula that pides the discounted price by the original price and then subtracts the result from one.

How the formula works

In the example, the active cell contains this formula:

=1-(D5/C5)

In this case, Excel first pides the discounted price in D5 (59.5) by the original price in C5 (70) to get 0.85, which is then subtracted from 1:

=1-(59.5/70)
=1-0.85
=0.15

Note that the result is a decimal version of the percent, and must be formatted using the Percentage number format in Excel to display as a percentage.