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Between 2002 and 2005,the average price of a home in pleasantville went up from $150,000 to $165,000. What was the percentage increase in the price of a home?

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It would be 10 percent
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the percent increase is 10% ; the equation you can use for these types of problems is: new-original value divided by original value , times 100.
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