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@ReddyLutonadio It’s not really about how Excel handles percentages — it couldn’t reasonably handle them any other way. 5% is just a different way of writing 0.05.
– Mike Scott
Commented Jul 16, 2021 at 7:32
@MikeScott Understood.
– Reddy Lutonadio
Commented Jul 16, 2021 at 7:45
Another non Excel way of looking at it 5% is 5 out of 100 or mathematically 5/100 or .05. So adding this to 5 gives you 5.05. If you multiple this times 100% you get 505%
– BradR
Commented Jul 17, 2021 at 0:21
Nice one you get +10 ☺
– Rajesh Sinha
Commented Jul 17, 2021 at 2:41

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