using percentages?

Hello everyone. I am trying to write a program that reads a percent discount and then deducts that from a total price. i was just wondering how do i assign percentages to a variable?

what i am doing is

print "please enter percent discount";
percent discount++

then be able to use that variable (which is a percentage) later on in the code. thanks

This isn't really programming but basic math and as such, you may do well to read up on percents, say on Wikipedia. If you reduce a price by 12%, you would subtract from the price the price * 12/100 which is the same as multiplying the price by 0.88 (which equals ((100 - 12) / 100) ).

thanks! with your advice i was able to come up with a pretty good code. my only problem is i need to have the ability to input a number with a thousandths place into the baseprice variable, such as $305.68 opposed to just plain old $305. care to lead me i the right direction? this is what i have for my code. works well minus that small problem.

Code:

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import java.util.Scanner;
public class project2 {
        public static void main(String[] args) {
               
                Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
               
                int baseprice;
                int discountrate;
                double discountamt;
                double price2;
                int tax;
                double taxamt;
                double finalprice;
               
                System.out.print("Please enter the base price of the vehicle: $");
                baseprice = input.nextInt();
               
                System.out.print("Please enter the rate of the discount: %");
                discountrate = input.nextInt();
               
                System.out.print("Please enter the rate of tax: %");
                tax = input.nextInt();
                       
                discountamt = baseprice * discountrate/100;
               
                price2 = baseprice - discountamt;
               
                taxamt = price2 * tax/100;
               
                finalprice = price2 * tax/100 + price2;
               
                if (finalprice >= 30000)
                        System.out.printf("Valued Customer Bonus!\n");
               
                System.out.printf("The amount of discount is: $%.2f\n", discountamt);
                System.out.printf("The amount of tax is: $%.2f\n", taxamt);
                System.out.printf("The final price of the car is: $%.2f\n", finalprice);
               
        }

}

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If you need a double input then read in a double -- input.nextDouble() -- and have a double variable accept this input:

Code:

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double myDouble = input.nextDouble();

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Please look up the API for the java.util.Scanner class if you need to know more.