Question

You work in a chemical lab. Last quarter, you successfully completed an average of about 5 chemical analyses per day. This quarter, you have increased this average to about 8 per day. What is you percentage increase

Answer 1

Increase by 62.5%.
5/8 times 100

Answer 2

percentage increase is 60%

Explanation:

given data

average = 5 per day

increase average = 8 per day

to find out

percentage increase

solution

we know starting initially average is 5 per day and increase about 9 per day

so percentage increase =( increase average - average ) / average × 100 ........................1

put here value

percentage increase = ( increase average - average ) / average × 100

percentage increase = ( 8 - 5 ) / 5 × 100

percentage increase = 60

so percentage increase is 60%