Question

The number of measles cases has increased by 14% since 2000. Express your answer rounded correctly to the nearest hundredth. Stated another way, the number of measles cases is 2 times what it was in 2000. Express your answer rounded correctly to the nearest tenth of a percent. Stated another way, the number of measles cases was 12 % of what it is now. If you haven't answered the question correctly in 3 attempts, you can get a hint.

Answer 1

Answer:

1.14x = 2x

x = (0.12)(1.14)x

Step-by-step explanation:

We are going to express the data in an equation form:

If x was the number of cases there was in 2000 ⇒currently there are 1.14x cases of measles.

But the question also tells us that the number of cases now is also 2 times what it was in 2000.

So we have that 1.14x = 2x

It also tells us that the number of measles back in 2000 was 12% of what it is now.

x = (.12) 1.14x

We can't really solve these equations since the problem doesn't give us any more information (I am assuming there was another part of the problem before this one that wasn't written here).