Savanna had 4040 iris blooms last year. This year, she had 15\%15% more iris blooms. How many more iris blooms did Savanna have this year?

Answer 1

Hello, thank you for taking the time to post your question!

The way the question is worded, it just wants you to multiply the given values together in order to get the total increase.

For this one that means taking

40 x 15% = 40 x 0.15 = 6

So she had 6 more iris blooms this year

I hope that helps get you moving in the right direction! Feel free to reach out if you have any additional questions beyond that :)

Answer 2

If I'm reading your question right, the question is "Savanna had 4040 iris blossoms last year. This year, she had 15% more iris blossoms." Is this right?

Since the question asks next how many more iris blossoms she had this year than last year, we're going to only see the number of new blossoms, not the total for the year.

So last year was 4040 which made up 100%. This year is higher with an extra 15% making 115%. In other words, there are two fairly simple ways to answer this:

1. Multiple 4040 x .15 (this only gives you the number of new blossoms, not the total blossoms)
2. Or set this up as a cross multiplications. This is harder and involves subtracting the new blossoms from the total. I suggest using the first one.

When you're using this first formula, you're saying 4040 = 100%, so adding 15% means adding .15 times the total. If you wanted to find the total blossoms, you'd use 4040 x 1.15. This is also a useful formula for figuring out tax when shopping! Hope that helps. :)