The Lions won 18 games last year. This year they won 28 games. What is the percent increase in the number of games the Lions won from last year to this year?

1 Answer
Apr 27, 2018

See a solution process below:

Explanation:

The formula for calculating the percent change in a value between two points in time is:

#p = (N - O)/O * 100#

Where:

#p# is the percent change - what we are solving for in this problem.

#N# is the New Value: 28 games in this problem.

#O# is the Old Value: 18games in this problem.

Substituting and solving for #p# gives:

#p = (28 - 18)/18 * 100#

#p = 10/18 * 100#

#p = 1000/18#

#p = 55.6# rounded to the nearest tenth.

Between last year and this year the Lions was 55.6% more games