What are you not understanding. The price went up 6 cents. Divide that by the original amount, 75 cents.
6/75 = 0.08 = 8% increase
Jessie B.
asked • 04/16/18WERE DO THE 6/75 COME FROM
Suppose a certain item used to sell for seventy-five cents a pound, you see that it's been marked up to eighty-one cents a pound. What is the percent increase?
First, I have to find the absolute increase: Copyright © Elizabeth Stapel 1999-2011 All Rights Reserved
81 – 75 = 6
The price has gone up six cents. Now I can find the percentage increase over the original price.
Note this language, "increase/decrease over the original", and use it to your advantage: it will remind you to put the increase or decrease over the original value, and then divide.
This percentage increase is the relative change:
6/75 = 0.08
First, I have to find the absolute increase: Copyright © Elizabeth Stapel 1999-2011 All Rights Reserved
81 – 75 = 6
The price has gone up six cents. Now I can find the percentage increase over the original price.
Note this language, "increase/decrease over the original", and use it to your advantage: it will remind you to put the increase or decrease over the original value, and then divide.
This percentage increase is the relative change:
6/75 = 0.08
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