Question

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

Answer 1

Answer:Blake has 1.25b (b=baseball cards)

Explanation:

Answer 2

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`