Question

Page 5.26, Problem 3: A baseball team had 80 players show up last year and this year had 96 players show up for tryouts. Find increase in players from last year to this year. Your answer.

Answer 1

In order to determne the increse in the number of players, estimate the percentage increase. Proceed as follow:

First, calculate the difference in the number of player:

96 - 80 = 16

next, determine what is the associated percentage of such difference:

(16/80)(100) = 20%

Hence, the percentage increase was of 20%