Question

Dallas got a raise his hourly wage was increased from 9 to 10.25 what was the precent increase in Dallas's wage to the nearest whole percent

Answer 1

To find the percentage increase:

$\frac{new \: wage - original \: wage}{original \: wage} \times 100\%$
In this case:

(10.25-9)/9 ×100%
=1.25/9×100%
=0.138888... ×100%
=13.8888...%
≈13.9%

Therefore it increased by 13.9%.

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