Percentages

Question

You are comparing prices of two different apartments. The first apartment is new and fully furnished with a monthly rent of $925. The second is a basement apartment that is much older but the rent is $625 per month. Compare the two apartments by price by filling in the blanks in the sentences below.

 

The new apartment is 48% more than the basement apartment. 

 

The new apartment is ____% of the basement apartment. (Round to the nearest tenth.)

Answer 1

new = x% · basement

925 = x% · 625

925 / 625 = x%

148.148 = x%

 

 

The new apartments is 148.1% of the basement apartment.