Question

A spider ate 25%25\% 25% 25, percent more bugs this month than last month. The spider ate 88 8 8 bugs last month. How many bugs did the spider eat this month?

Answer 1

10 bugs

Explanation:

If last month the spider ate 8 bugs, and this month the spider ate 25% more bugs, we can calculate the amount of bugs the spider ate this month finding how much is 25% of 8 bugs, and them we sum this value to the 8 bugs it ate last month.

25% of 8 = 8 * 25 / 100 = 2

Now we know that the spider ate 2 more bugs, so the amount of bugs it ate this month is 8 + 2 = 10 bugs.

We can also solve this problem multiplying directly 8 by 1.25 (1.25 represents the 25% increase in the bug consumption):

8 * 1.25 = 10 bugs.