Ok, how do I subtract a percent from a number?

In Excel, this is easy. But numbers isn't doing it.
I want to take a number, say 2400, and subtract 6.9% from it without 1st using an additional cell to find out what 6.9% of 2400 is.
In excel, you just use: =2400-6.9%
But in numbers, this is giving a result of 2399.94
I know it's simple? Anyone know why Numbers handles percentages differently?

Your formula is giving the correct answer, just not the answer to the question you are asking.
2400 - 6.9%*2400 = the result you want
also stated as
2400*(1-6.9%) = the result you want
EDIT: I saw Peter's post after I posted mine. Note that the 6.9 in his formula is not 6.9%, it is 6.9 (which is 100 times greater than 6.9%).
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