Question

A company is expanding its building area from 20,000 square feet to 25,600 square feet. What is the percentage increase of the area of the building space?

Answer 1

Answer:

28%

Step-by-step explanation:

To increase a number by a certain percentage it is multiplied by a decimal greater than 1. E.g. if we wanted to find 20% more of 20,000, we would do:

20% increase to a number = 1.2

20,000x1.2= 24,000

Original number x Percentage increase = Final number

Since we don't know the percentage increase, but have both other variables, we can rearrange the above equation to solve for it:

Percentage increase = final number/original number

Percentage increase = 25600/20000

Percentage increase = 1.28

Therefore the area was increased by 28%.

Hope this helped!

Answer 2

The answer might be 28%