astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson once commented somehow its ok for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I sa
id I never learned to read they'd say I was an illiterate dolt he was referring to the notion that it has become socially acceptable for people to say they are bad at math but it is unacceptable to say they are bad at reading
To find the percent of increase take the difference of the two divided by the original. (62-55)/55 = .12727272727. So 13% if they want you to round to the nearest percent.
