Question

The market bought grapes for $0.87 a pound and sold them for $1.09 a pound. What is the percent for increace rounded to the nearest tenth?

Answer 1

So to find percent increase, you want to minus the difference in cost..

1.09- 0.87= .22...

now divide the difference by the original....

.22 ÷ .87 = .25287.....etc

now multiply that by 100...

.25287 × 100 = 25.287

now it says round to the nearest tenth so...

25.29% increase.