Question

A mans salary goes from 16,000 to 19,000
What percentage raise has he gotten?

Answer 1

Percent increase = (increase / original amount) x 100

What is the increase?

Answer 2

i don't get it. at all .

Answer 3

The increase in your case is just the increase in his salary. It goes up from 16000 to 19000. That's an increase of ______

Answer 4

it goes up by 4 thousand...?

Answer 5

3 my bad.

Answer 6

correct. the original amount or old amount is where he started: 16000

Answer 7

yeah..

Answer 8

so plug all of this into the formula i gave you in the first post

Answer 9

i do not understand your formula !

Answer 10

\[\frac{ increase }{ original amount }\times 100\]

Answer 11

You know the increase: 3000
You know the original amount: 16000

Answer 12

i still don't get it. i'll just get it wrong .

Answer 13

\[\frac{ 3000 }{ 16000 }\times100\]

Answer 14

Do you know how to put that in your calculater?
3000 divided by 16000 times 100 =

Answer 15

\(\bf {percent ~change = \dfrac{\color{blue}{new~amount} - \color{red}{old~amount}}{\color{red}{old~amount}} \times 100 }\)

\( \bf{ \color{blue}{new ~amount = 19,000 }} \)
\( \bf{\color{red}{old ~amount = 16,000}} \)

\(\bf {percent ~change = \dfrac{\color{blue}{19000} - \color{red}{16000}}{\color{red}{16000}} \times 100 }\)

\(\bf {percent ~change = \dfrac{3000} {\color{red}{16000}} \times 100 }\)

\(\bf {percent ~change = 18.75\% } \)