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Like it or not, you have a number — and it’s either helping or hurting you. Here’s a simple guide to making yours better.

If you have a $10,000 credit limit each month, and you use $2,000, that’s a 20% credit utilization. An easy rules of thumb to remember is to keep your utilization below 30%.