What is the percent of increase from 8 feet to 10 feet round to the nearest tenth if necessary

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asked Mar 18, 2023 175k views

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Ashay · Answer 1 · 2023-03-23T07:06:28+0000

The first step is to find how much was the increase, so we just need to subtract 10 and 8:

The increase was 2 units. So now, in order to find the percent of increase, we just need to divide the increase by the initial value:

$(2)/(8)=0.25=25\text{\%}$

So the percent of increase is 25%.