Question

Salary Increase: A person earning $3,200 a month gets a raise and makes $3680 the following months. What is the percent increase in salary?The person got a raise of ? %

Answer 1

To find the percent increase we have to notice that the salary increased $480, now we divide this by the original salary and multiply by 100 to get the percentage:

`(480)/(3200)\cdot100=15`

Therefore the person got a raise of 15%