Due to an ice storm, the price of apples increased from $0.69 a pound to $1.59 a pound from one year to the next. What is the percent of increase, rounded to the nearest tenth?

A. 56.6%

B. 89.2%

C. 118.3%

D. 130.4%

Question

Due to an ice storm, the price of apples increased from $0.69 a pound to $1.59 a pound from one year to the next. What is the percent of increase, rounded to the nearest tenth?
 
 A. 56.6% 
 
 B. 89.2% 
 
 C. 118.3% 
 
 D. 130.4%

anonymous · Answer

$1.59/lbs-$0.69/lbs=$0.9/lbs
$$\frac{$0.9/lbs}{$0.69/lbs}=1.304 $$
(dollar per pound units, $/lbs, cancel out)
1.304*100%=130.4%

Make sense?  :-)

anonymous · Answer

56% and 89% are decreases, common sense says you can rule those two out immediately to get a 50/50