Question

Assume that in October of a particular year about 215 billion text messages were sent or received in the US, and the prediction is that in the next month it will be a 13% increase. About how many will be sent or received in November of the same year? Rounded to the nearest tenth of a billion.

Answer 1

Answer:

There will be $243$ billion messages sent or received in November.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given.

Number of text messages sent or received $=215$ billion.

Increment on the very next month $=13\%=\frac{13}{100}=0.13$

Lets find what is $13\%\ of\ 215$

 ⇒$13\%\ of\ 215$

 ⇒$0.13\times 215=27.95$

So we will add this value to our previous months data.

Now

Number of text messages sent in the month of November $=(27.5+215)=242.95$ billion.

Rounding to the nearest tenth the answer will be $243$ billion.

So $243$ billion text messages were sent or received in November.