13.8% of employees ride a city bus. This is up 12.9% from last year. How many rode the bus last year

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Answer 1

Trinity,

it would be difficult getting an exact answer for this without knowing either

1) how many people rode the city bus in either year, or

2) the city population

 

based on the information provided, you can see that 0.9% (13.8-12.9) of the population rode the city bus last year! 

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