When working with percentages, make sure you are confident in handling equivalent fractions and converting between fractions, decimals and percentages. By keeping the numerator and denominator in the ...

An amount can be increased or decreased by a certain percentage to change its size. A reverse percentage problem involves finding the original amount before a percentage increase or decrease. The ...

In most states, the benefits formulas for active employees are untouchable. The only way to chip away at pension-funding problems is to fiddle with formulas for new employees, partly because unions ...

My previous column on the growing generation gap in pension benefits stirred up a hornets' nest. Readers chimed in on all sides of the debate and started spewing out formulas and "multipliers" to ...