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Find the percent of increase from 15 to 20

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I think it might be 25%
User Ryan Burn
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Original: 15
New: 20

You would want to put new - original / original for percent of increase. In this case, it would be 20 - 15 / 15, which would get you 5 / 15. Simplify: 1 / 3. Now you can change it into decimal, which equals to 0.333333 (With repeat bar on top) and it would equal to 33.3%.
User Colefner
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