Question

A 200% price increase is the same as 50% price increase followed by a ____ price increase'

Answer 1

pick an arbitrary price for an object and lets work ths out.
lets say the price originally was $100 (easy number to work with)
a percent price increase is adding the percent of the original price to the original price
a 200% increase on $100 would be $300
do you see why?

Answer 2

how is it 300

Answer 3

200% of 100 is $200
add that to 100 to get 300

Answer 4

a.50%
b.100%
c.150%d.200%

Answer 5

d.200%

Answer 6

so we have $100, and we want a 50% increase on that, which would be $150. What percent increase on that would equal $300? its a 100% increase because 100% of 150 is 150 and 150+150 = 300

Answer 7

i think its 100%

Answer 8

so its b

Answer 9

yea

Answer 10

do you see why?

Answer 11

no

Answer 12

a percent price increase is adding the percent of the original price to the original price. so if we have something thats $20, a 100% increase on that is (100% of 20)+20 = $40