Question

A pro football team has 36,000 season ticket holders. Then the team wins the championship and the number of season ticket holders increases by 9,000. What is the percent of change in season ticket holders?
20%
25%
33.3%
75%

Answer 1

Given:
36,000 season ticket holders (base number)
  9,000 increase in season ticket holders.

9,000 / 36,000 = 0.25
0.25 * 100% = 25%

The percentage change is an increase of 25%.

36,000 + 9,000 = 45,000 new number of season ticket holders.