To find the percent increase you need to first find how much the price went up: 2.65 - 2.4 = .25 Now divide .25 by the original price.
16% of $36.48 is $5.84
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Cross multiply 16 and 36.48 to 583.68, and then I divided by 100, to get the percent of 5.8368, which I rounded up to 5.84%.
Answer:
r=2/3
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