The number of measles cases has increased by 14% since 2000. Express your answer rounded correctly to the nearest hundredth. Sta
ted 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.
We are going to express the data in an equation form:
If <em>x </em>was the number of cases there was in 2000 ⇒<em>currently there are 1.14x </em>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 <u>1.14x = 2x</u>
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It also tells us that the number of measles back in 2000 was 12% of what it is now.
<u>x = (.12) 1.14x</u>
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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).
