Question

Ben, Fran and Stan are posting funny memes online. Ben's funny memes got 40% more likes than Stan's. Fran's got 20% fewer likes than Stan's. By what percentage did Ben get more likes than Fran?

Answer 1

75%

Explanation:

Lets say that Stan has 100 likes. Then, 1.4*100=140 likes for Ben, and 0.8*100=80 likes for Fran. (140-80)/80=75%. So, Ben has 75% more likes than Fran.

Answer 2

60%

Explanation:

Given that Ben, Fran and Stan post funny memes online.

Benny got 40% more likes than Stans's

Fran got 20% fewer likes than Stan's

Let x % be that of Stan's

Then Ben's likes would be x+40 %

and Fran's likes would be x-20%

Difference = x+40-(x-20) = 60

Hence put to gether we can say that

Ben got 40-(-20) = 60% more likes than Fran