Question

Each year, Terrell buys a plane ticket to visit his grandmother for a week. Last year, he paid $135. This year, he paid $162 . What was the percent increase in the cost of his plane ticket? Show your work.

Answer 1

Wanna work on this together?

Answer 2

20%

Answer 3

Lemme know whenever you're ready to work on this.

Answer 4

Yeah ill work on it?

Answer 5

Awesome. Percent = a part of a whole. Or "a part divided by the whole"

The whole will be the original $135. The difference is what we want the 'part' to be.

SO.... difference divided by $135.

How do we find the difference?

Answer 6

to find the difference i would subtract

Answer 7

132 from 162

Answer 8

Good. Though it's 135 from 162. Be careful with the numbers. :P

You get 27. Now what do we do?

Answer 9

part = 27
whole = 135

Answer 10

See this is where i dont know what to do?

Answer 11

What we do is part divided by whole.
So, since both are labeled:
part = 27
whole = 135

You can tell me what the answer is. There's ONE more step after that.

Answer 12

Does it make sense? I don't want you to give up, because we're almost there.