What is the Percentage Difference from 40 to 57?
From 40 to 57 is a 42.5% increase
Step by step
- Difference: 57 − 40 = 17
- Divide by the starting value: 17 ÷ 40 = 0.425
- Multiply by 100: 42.5%
How the answer is worked out
Percentage change measures a difference against the value you started with. The value went from 40 to 57, a difference of 17. Compared with the starting value of 40, that difference is 42.5%, so this is a 42.5% increase.
The new value is 1.425 times the old one: for every 100 at the start there are now 142.5.
Why calculate this?
Percentage change compares a new value with an old one regardless of size: price rises, growth, discounts, score changes.
- Prices: an item whose price rises from $40 to $57 has gone up by 42.5%.
- Pay: a wage that rises from $40 to $57 an hour is a 42.5% pay rise.
- Audiences: a channel that grows from 40 to 57 subscribers has grown by 42.5%.
A quicker way
Find 1% of the starting value: 40 ÷ 100 = 0.4. The difference of 17 is 42.5 of those steps.
Percentage change is not the same as percentage points. If a rate moves from 40% to 57%, it changes by 17 percentage points, but by 42.5% relative to where it started.
Check the answer
Work forwards from the start: 40 × (1 + 0.425) = 40 × 1.425 = 57. Getting 57 shows the answer is right.
Rounding
Rounded to a whole number the change is 43, to one decimal place 42.5 and to two decimal places 42.50. Round only at the end: rounding halfway through a calculation can change the last digit.
The formula explained
percentage change = (new value − old value) ÷ old value × 100. A positive result is an increase and a negative result is a decrease. The old value is always the base, which is why the change from A to B and from B to A are different percentages.
Another worked example: 9 to 43
- Difference: 43 − 9 = 34
- Divide by the starting value: 34 ÷ 9 = 3.777778
- Multiply by 100: 377.7778%
Why the change back is different
A 42.5% rise followed by a 42.5% fall does not bring you back to 40: it gives 32.775. The second percentage is taken of 57, not of 40, so to undo this change you need 29.8246% instead.
Other ways to ask this
The same calculation is often asked in other words. All of these have the answer above:
- Percentage increase from 40 to 57
- What percent more is 57 than 40?
- 40 to 57 as a percent change
- How much did 40 grow going to 57, in percent?
- Relative change between 40 and 57
Terms used on this page
- Old value: the starting amount, used as the base of the percentage.
- New value: the amount after the change.
- Increase: a positive change: the new value is bigger.
- Percentage point: the plain difference between two rates, not a relative change.
The answer in other forms
| Change | 42.5% |
|---|---|
| Difference | 17 |
| New ÷ old | 1.425 |
| Direction | increase |
Related results
| 40 to 55 | From 40 to 55 is a 37.5% increase |
| 40 to 56 | From 40 to 56 is a 40% increase |
| 40 to 58 | From 40 to 58 is a 45% increase |
| 40 to 59 | From 40 to 59 is a 47.5% increase |
| 40 to 67 | From 40 to 67 is a 67.5% increase |
The other way round: Percentage difference from 57 to 40
Doing it in a spreadsheet
In Excel, Google Sheets or Numbers type =(57-40)/40*100 into any cell. Replace the numbers with cell references (for example A1 and B1) to reuse the formula for a whole column.
Common mistakes
Always divide by the starting value, not the new one. A rise from 40 to 50 is +25%, but the fall from 50 back to 40 is −20%.
Practice examples
| 9 to 43 | Show answerFrom 9 to 43 is a 377.7778% increase |
| 81 to 51 | Show answerFrom 81 to 51 is a 37.037% decrease |
| 89 to 88 | Show answerFrom 89 to 88 is a 1.1236% decrease |
| 38 to 55 | Show answerFrom 38 to 55 is a 44.7368% increase |
| 11 to 12 | Show answerFrom 11 to 12 is a 9.0909% increase |
| 13 to 80 | Show answerFrom 13 to 80 is a 515.3846% increase |
| 63 to 7 | Show answerFrom 63 to 7 is a 88.8889% decrease |
| 75 to 65 | Show answerFrom 75 to 65 is a 13.3333% decrease |
| 83 to 61 | Show answerFrom 83 to 61 is a 26.506% decrease |
| 64 to 46 | Show answerFrom 64 to 46 is a 28.125% decrease |
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Questions
What is the Percentage Difference from 40 to 57?
Going from 40 to 57 is a 42.5% increase. Formula and steps.
Is going from 40 to 57 an increase or a decrease?
An increase: the value grew by 17, which is 42.5% of the starting value.
What is the percentage change from 57 back to 40?
-29.8246%. It is a different number because the starting value is now 57, not 40.
What is the percentage difference between 40 and 57?
When neither value is the starting point, use the average as the base: 17 ÷ 48.5 × 100 = 35.0515%. That is the symmetric percentage difference.
How do I calculate percentage change in Excel or Google Sheets?
Put the old value in A1 and the new value in B1, then type =(B1-A1)/A1 and format the cell as a percentage. For these numbers it shows 42.5%.