Blake has b baseball cards. His aunt gave him more cards, increasing his total number of cards by 25%. Which expression represents Blake’s total number of cards now

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Perrier · Answer 1 · 2020-04-10T15:49:22+0000

Answer:

Blake's total number of cards now: 1.25b

Explanation:

Total number of cards now would be equal to 25% increase from b.

This means we INCREASE b by 25% OF b.

What is 25% of b???

$(25)/(100)*b\\=0.25b$

Now we need to ADD this to original amount, b.

So,
b+0.25b=1.25b