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The price of a cup of coffee was $2.10 yesterday. Today, the price rose to $2.45. Find the percentage increase. Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a
percent.


Sagot :

Answer:

16.6667% increase

Step-by-step explanation:

Percentage Increase=Final Value−Starting Value|Starting Value|×100  

Answer:

17%

Step-by-step explanation:

The increase is calculated as the difference between yesterday's price and today's price, hence $2.45 - $2.10 = $0.35

As a fraction of yesterday's price, the fraction is [tex]\frac{0.35}{2.10}[/tex], which reduces to [tex]\frac{1}{6}[/tex].  Expressed as a decimal fraction, this is 0.16...  Shift the decimal point two places to the right to get the percentage increase of 16.6...%.

Since it said to round to the nearest tenth, rounding it makes the answer of 17.0% or 17% because since 6 is bigger than 10, we needed to round up and thus the answer is 17%.