Huntsville’s population grows from 25,000 to 28,000. What is the percent increase in Huntsville’s population? How do you solve 3,000/ 25,000 without a calculator to still get 12…

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asked Aug 21, 2020 143k views

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Kukido · Answer 1 · 2020-08-27T03:01:45+0000

Answer:

$\%increase = 12\%$

Explanation:

The formula to calculate the percentage of increase is:

$\% = (x_f-x_i)/(x_i)*100\%$

Where

x_i is the initial amount and
x_f is the final amount

So:

$\% = (28000-25000)/(25000)*100\%$

$\% = (3000)/(25000)*100\%$

You can write it as:

$\% = (3*1000)/(25*1000)*100\%$

This is:

$\% = (3)/(25)*100\%$

$\%increase = 12\%$