Percent of Change

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• How do you solve percent change in word problems?
• What is the percent change formula?
• How do you solve a percent change equation?
• What is percent change?
• What is the price of the player if a $150 mp3 player is on sale for 30% off?
• By what percent was the shirt discounted if a $49.99 shirt goes on sale for $29.99?
• What was the pre-sale price of a TV that is 35% off and has a new price of $195?
• What will the new hourly rate be after an employee gets a #12%# raise at a store that currently pays #$9.50# per hour?
• If you earn $18 and receive a pay increase of 12% how much money will you make?
• How do you find the percent change if original: 66 dimes and new: 30 dimes?
• How do you find the percent change if original: $53 and new: $75?
• How do you find the percent change if original: 15.6 liters and new: 11.4 liters?
• How do you find the percent change if original: $3.78 and new: $2.50?
• How do you find the percent change if original: 231.2 mph and new: 236.4 mph?
• How do you find the percent change if original: 124 tons and new: 137 tons?
• What is the percent change of 56 to 71?
• What is the percent change of 127 to 84?
• What is the percent change of 20 to 24?
• What is the percent change of 44 to 22?
• What is the percent change of 16 to 12?
• What is the percent change of 20 to 40?
• What is the percent change of 10 to 50?
• What is the percent change of 12 to 16?
• What is the percent change of 80 to 100?
• What is the percent change of 69 to 117?
• What is the percent change of 19 to 9?
• What is the percent change of 95 to 145?
• What is the percent change of 88 to 26?
• What is the percent change of 1 to 12?
• Pan's math score is 84 this time. Last time he got 70. What is the percent of increase (from last time)?
• Last week, you finished Level 2 of a video game in 32 minutes. Today, you finished Level 2 in 28 minutes. What is your percent of change?
• Dennis wants to buy a card for his wife. Dennis calculates the amount of the card as $4.50. The actual price of card is $4. What is Dennis's percent error?
• 30 is 15% of what number?
• What is 140% of 68 g?
• The population of a town increased from 850,000 to 925,000. How do you find the percent increase in population?
• An $75 pair of shoes is on sale for $66. How do you find the percent discount?
• Sean is a salesman. He earns 4% commission for each car he sells. Sean just earned $1136 for selling a car. How much did he sell the car for?
• A bike store is having a 15% off sale. If the sale price of a bike is $204, what was the original price?
• Last year there were 20,404 fans at an all-star game. This year there were 4,876 more fans. How do you estimate the percent increase?
• The Bisons won 51 games last year. The team won 71 games this year. How do you find the estimate of the percent increase in wins?
• If my home was assessed at 272,909 last year and this year it was assessed at 331,054. What is the percentage increase?
• What is the percent of increase from 50 to 90?
• What is the percent of decrease from 110 to 77?
• The price of a suit decreased from $280 to $182 during a clearance sale. What is the percent of decrease in the price?
• What is the percent increase from 22,762 to 38,139?
• What is the percent increase from 50 to 60?
• If 24 is increased to 30, what is the percent of increase?
• What is the increase of percentage on 9 trillion to 13 trillion?
• What is the percent increase from 0 to 19?
• An increase from 16 to 20 is what percent of increase?
• What percent increase is $4-$5?
• Is the percent of the increase equal to the percent of the decrease if an item costs $36. the price is increased by $15, then reduced by $15?
• One of the largest US stock market rises occurred on March 15, 1933. On this day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average opened at 53.84 points and closed at 62.10 points. What was the approximate percent of increase?
• If a number increased from 280 to 406, what is the percentage of increase?
• By doubling each dimension, the area of a parallelogram increased from 36 square centimeters to 144 square centimeters. How do you find the percent increase in area?
• What is the percentage increase from 4 to 5?
• The price of a technology stock was $9.51 yesterday. Today, the price rose to $9.58. How do you find the percentage increase?
• What is the percent of increase from 25 to 40?
• How do you find the percent increase using proportions given 55 mph to 70 mph?
• Jason got a 75 on a math test. He was allowed to retake the test and he increased his score to 84. What was the percent of increase?
• What is the percent increase of 160 to 200?
• The cost of a protein bar increased from $2.50 to $2.80. The percent increase in the $2.80 rate was how much?
• Jennifer's annual salary increased from $27, 000 to $ 47, 000 over the last 5 years. How do you find percent increase in her salary during this time period?
• On a bio test a student got 25 questions correct but did not pass. on a second attempt the student got 32 questions correct. What was the percent of increase?
• If 250 is increased to 300, what is the percentage increase?
• What is the percent increase from 70 to 98?
• The price of a technology stock has risen to $9.84 today. Yesterday's price was $9.71. How do you find the percentage increase?
• How do you find the percent of increase or decrease given Original: 10 and New: 12?
• How do you find the percent of increase or decrease given Original: 30 and New: 12?
• A new pair of shoes cost $64.00. The shoe company then decides to run a special. If the sale price is $48.00, what is the price’s percent decrease during the special?
• The amount of dogs at the local animal shelter has gone up from 15 to 18. What is the percent increase?
• A pair of Levi 501 Jeans go on sale from $50 to $45. What is the percent decrease?
• Julie decides to use a new gasoline that should raise her gas mileage 150%. If her original gas mileage was 18 miles per gallon, what should she now be getting with the new gasoline?
• A discount tire company is having a sale on snow tires. If the price of an individual snow tire was $45.00, what is the new price if you only have to pay 60%?
• Tickets to The Phantom of the Opera just lowered 15%. If the new price is $51.00, what was the original price?
• Pop Music’s Greatest Hits just came out through Amazon. Each CD costs $12.00, but the same CD can be found on eBay for 75% of the cost. How much can one buy the CD for through eBay?
• How much percent increase is 1,217,978.01 to 1,323,698,000?
• If 45 is increased to 69, what is the percent increase?
• How do you find the percentage increase between 1.55 and 2.38?
• What is the percentage increase of $4.00 to $3.50?
• Texas Instruments introduced the first calculator that sold for $149. Now, it sells for $5. How do you find the percent of decrease?
• How do you find the percent of increase or decrease given y to 3/8 y?
• If the sides of a square are increased by 20%, by what percentage does the area of the square increase?
• What is the percent of increase from 270cm³ to 750cm³?
• What is the percent increase from $4.00 to $5.00?
• Is the percent increase from 25 to 100 the same as the percent decrease from 100 to 25?
• What is the percent of increase if the starting number is 25663 and went up to 26663 in one year?
• How do you calculate the percentage increase in value per year of something $350 to $800 in 7 years?
• How do you approximate the percent increase in waist size that occurs when a 155 lb person gains 38 lb of fat?
• Say a stock has increased from $4.34 a share to $6.55 a share. How much would that be percentage-wise?
• What is the percent of increase from 20 to 39?
• Iceberg lettuce is grown and shipped to stores for about 40 cents a head, and customers purchase it for about 70 cents a head. How do you find the percent increase?
• A clerk’s weekly salary of $320 is increased to $360. What is the percent increase?
• The sales os HiTop sneakers rose from $3 million to $3.4 million. How do you find the percent increase to the nearest whole percent?
• How do you find the percent change from 16 to 56?
• How do you find the percent change from 200 to 148?
• How do you find the result when 80 is decreased by 80%?
• How do you find the result when 115 is increased by 20%?
• The price of a train ticket from Lexington to Oklahoma City is normally $138.00. However, children under the age of 16 receive a 65% discount. How do you find the sale price for someone under the age of 16?
• A shoes store buys sneakers at a wholesale price of $17 each. It then marks up the price by 43%, and sells the sneakers. What is the amount of the markup? What is the selling price?
• The Walzer's average phone bill increased from $16.65 to $19.98 what is the percent of increase?
• What is the increase as a percent given the price of gasoline increased from 93.9 cents to 99.9 cents?
• How do you find the percent of increase from 47 lb to 52 lb?
• How do you find the percent of increase from 45 m to 54 m?
• How do you find the percent of increase from 23 cm to 17 cm?
• How do you find the percent of increase from 49 cm to 28 cm?
• In 1990, the population of Delray Beach, Florida was 47,184. In 2000, the population was 60,020. What is the percent of change in population?
• There were 32 students in the Math Club. Five students transferred to the Chemistry Club. How do you find the percent of change in the number of students in the Math Club?
• When the new computer lab opened, there were 18 computers. By the end of first week, there were 25 computers. How do you find the percent of change in the number of computers?
• An employee received a raise of $15,000 and now earns $90,000. What was the percent increase?
• The amount in a savings account increased from $200 to $210. What was the percent of the increase?
• What percent of 50 is 140?
• What is the percentage of increase from 2568 to 41344?
• What is the percent change from 32 pages to 28 pages?
• What is the percent change from 7 players to 10 players?
• How do you find the new amount given 120 books increased by 55%?
• How do you find the new amount given 80 members decreased by 65%?
• Each edge of a cube is increased by 50%. How do you find the percentage of increase in the surface area of the cube?
• What is the percent increase from 25 to 75?
• A bond purchased at 500.00 now has a value of 650.00. What is the percent increase of its value?
• How do you calculate percent change of $44.65 to $23.63?
• How do you calculate percent change if on day 5, a company made £23,000 and on day 7 it only made £2,000?
• How do you calculate percent change if the initial number was 17.45 and the mass changed to 17.20?
• How do you calculate percent change if Net sales in 2006 = $19,315 and Net sales in 2007 = $24,006?
• How do you calculate percent change if Sales Revenue - 2007 was £230,000,000 and in 2006: £200,000,000?
• If 100 increases by 300%, what would the number be?
• If 756 increases by 100%, what would the number be?
• The population of the United States grew from 76 million in 1900 to 300 million in 2006, what is the percent change?
• The annual number of deaths from cardiovascular disease in the United States decreased from 1,008,000 in 1970 to 910,600 in 2004, what is the percent change?
• If an object went from #0.96g " to " 0.69g# would the percent change be #-28# or #-39# and why?
• What is the percentage change from -63 and -66?
• If I buy a stock for $100.00 and it appreciates to $200.00, what is the best formula to calculate the % increase?
• What percent is 26 of 30?
• How do you Increase $1400 by 30%?
• How do you calculate the percent increase of 10372 & 15740?
• How do you calculate the percent change of 34,161.78, which increases to 75,000?
• How do you calculate the percent change of 14.1 and 15.8 ?
• How do you calculate the percent change of Sales for 2007 $404,729 to Sales for 2008 $571,320?
• How do you calculate the percent change of 13 to 70?
• How do you calculate the percent change of 51,000 to 63,000?
• How do you calculate the percent change of 42 to 168?
• How do you calculate the percent change of 24 to 21?
• How do you calculate the percent change of 64 to 80?
• How do you calculate the percent change of 100 to 113?
• How do you calculate the percent change of 50 to 41?
• How do you calculate the percent change of 80 to 24?
• How do you calculate the percent change of 200 to 158?
• How do you calculate the percent change of 0 to 19?
• How do you increase 146 by 4 percent?
• What is the percent for 489 increased to 605?
• What is the percent for $644 is $572.67?
• What is the percent change for 50,000 to 40,000?
• What is the percent change for 5 miles to 12 miles?
• The radius of a circle is 10 cm. If the radius is increased by 20%, how do you find the percentage increase in area?
• If the price of gasoline increases by 25% and Ron intends to spend only 15% more on gasoline, by what % should he reduce the quantity of petrol that he buys?
• What is the minimum number of rotations Gear 1 requires to return to this starting position?
• How do you find the amount of markup or the amount of discount given $305 wetsuit, 15% off?
• How do you find the amount of markup or the amount of discount given $1 wax; 125% markup?
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• The original value of a car is $15,000, and it depreciates (loses value) by 20% each year. What is the value of the car after three years?
• What is the percent increase when 7,200 increases by 1,800?
• How do you find the percent change given the original number is 25 and new number is 10?
• How do you find the percent change given the original number is 50 and new number is 75?
• How do you find the percent change given the original number is 55 and new number is 50?
• How do you find the percent change given the original number is 25 and new number is 28?
• How do you find the percent change given the original number is 50 and new number is 30?
• How do you find the percent change given the original number is 90 and new number is 95?
• How do you find the percent change given the original number is 48 and new number is 60?
• How do you find the percent change given the original number is 60 and new number is 45?
• Last year the 6th grade had 350 students. This year the number decreased 36%. How many students are in this year’s 6th grade class?
• Enrollment in the Ski/Snowboard Club increased by 30% this year. There are now 182 students in the club. How many students were there last year?
• The Game Shop is having a sale and all games are reduced by 55%. If a game is now $29.99, what was the original price?
• AYSO has 18 8th grade boys’ teams this year, but this is a 28% (rounded to the nearest whole number) decrease from the prior year. How many 8th grade teams were there last year?
• The World Future Society predicts that by the year 2020, airplanes will be able to carry 1400 passengers. Today’s biggest jets can carry 600 passengers. What will be the percent of increase of airplane passengers?
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• At a local department store, cardigans are typically priced at $40. Due to a special, the cardigans are reduced to 30% of their original price. How much are cardigans now?
• What is the percent change if the original number is 66 and the new number is 30?
• A gallon of gas cost $3.50 at the beginning of the month. At the end of the month it cost $3.75. What was the percent change in the price of a gallon of gas?
• The number of students at Franklin High School increased from 840 to 910 over a 5-year period. What was the percent of increase?
• The cost of a baseball glove is $50.00, the Sporting Goods Store sells i for $60.00. How do you find the Markup percentage?
• Marlis has 900 cards in her baseball collection. She sells 171 of her cards. What is the percent of decrease in the number of cards in her collection?
• The average cost for a gallon of gasoline increased from $2.56 one year to $3.18 the next year. What is the percent of increase, rounded to the nearest whole number?
• A concert ticket that originally cost $18.50 is on sale for $14.00. What is the percent of decrease, rounded to the nearest tenth?
• An electric bill in May was $112.00. In June, the bill was $163.00. What is the percent of increase, rounded to the nearest tenth?
• What is the result when 78 is increased by 9.5%?
• Kristin had a job that paid $87.00 a day. She decided to to accept a job offer that pays $72.00 a day. What is the percent of decrease in Kristin's daily salary rounded to the nearest tenth?
• With the new pay scale, Nick's salary went from $120.00 a day to $140.00 a day. What is the percent of increase rounded to the nearest whole number?
• How do you find the percentage change from 50 to 82. Indicate whether it is an increase or a decrease. If necessary, round your answer to the nearest percent?
• In 1930, the average cost for a gallon of gasoline was $0.25. In 2007, the average cost for a gallon of gasoline is $2.60. What is the percent of increase rounded to the nearest whole number?
• The market bought grapes for $0.87 a pound and sold them for $1.09 a pound. What is the percent of increase rounded to the nearest tenth?
• $25,000 purchase decreases 12% in value per year. How do you determine the value of the purchase after 1yr, 3yrs, 5yrs, 7yrs?
• Last year, there were 380 students at Middle school. This year, the student population will increase by 5%. What will be the school's increased student population?
• One newspaper reported that the mayor received a salary increase of 5%. Another paper reported that the mayor's salary went up $2000. What was the mayor's salary before the increase?
• How do you find the percent increase from 24 teachers to 30 teachers?
• How do you find the percent increase from 75 pencils to 225 pencils?
• How do you find the percent increase from 42 acres to 75 acres?
• 8 is increased to 22, what is the percent change?
• A bookstore recorded a decrease in the sales of paperback books over the past year. From last year to this year the store experienced a 12% decrease in sales This year the store sold 7040 books. How many did it sell last year?
• What is the percent of change from 500,000 to 600,000?
• How do you find the discount or markup, then find the final selling price given the printer costs $149 and it is 18% off?
• How do you find the percent of change when 27 is increased to 53?
• Tonya said the percent increase from 25 to 40 is 37.5%. Describe Tonya's error and give the correct percent increase?
• The price of a flash drive that regularly sells for $16 is increased by 15%. How do you write two different expressions to find the new price?
• The original price of a DVD is represented by the variable x. If the DVD is discounted 45%, write a subtraction expression and a multiplication expression to represent its sale price?
• The value of facebook shares changed from $27.10 on the 8th June 2013 to $30.01 on the 15th June. How do you calculate the percentage change?
• A sofa regularly sells for $790. The sale price is $624.10. How do you find the percent decrease of the sale price from the regular price?
• A house has increased in value by 15% to £92000 What was the original value?
• How do you increase £80 by 20%?
• The price of a dress is marked down from $60 to $12. What is the rate of discount?
• The enrollment at White oak High School was 547 students in 1990. next decade, enrollment at the high school decreased by 37%. what is the approximate amount of decrease?
• 132 days to 125.4 days, what is the percent change?
• How do you find the percent of increase or decrease original:400 new:552?
• What is the percentage change of 26 to 60?
• How do you find the percent change given before:10 and after 12?
• How do you find the percent change given before:15 and after 12?
• How do you find the percent change given before:75 and after:60?
• How do you find the percent change given before:110 and after:143?
• How do you find the percent change given before:90 and after:200?
• How do you find the percent change given before:260 and after:160?
• Store is having a sale where winter clothes are 60% of the original price. A sweater on sale for $30. What was the original price of the sweater?
• A stereo is marked down $75. If this is a 15% decrease, how do you find the sale price?
• How do you find each percent of change when 12 is decreased to 48?
• The price of a notebook was $3.50 yesterday Today, the price rose to $3.75. How do you find the percentage increase?
• Rick weighed 158 pounds during wrestling season. Now that the season is over Rick weighs 188 pounds. How do you find the percent increase?
• A towns population went from 25,800 to 42,600 in 15 years. What was the percent of the change?
• Shannon had 165 in her baseball collection. She sold 153 of the cards to purchase a new ipod. What is the percent of change in the number of Shannon's baseball collection?
• A house has increased in value by 36% since it was purchased. If the current value is $578,000, what was the value when it was purchased?
• If the average price of houses today is $80,000, compared to $75,000 one year ago, what is the percent of change?
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• What number do we get if we decrease 208 by 35%?
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• An item that was #$1,525# is now #$1,708#. What was the percent change?
• The owner of a computer store received a shipment of computers at a cost of $319.85 each. If he sells the computers for $412.99 each, what is the percent of markup?
• What is the percent change of $158.49 to $149.99?
• The original price for a motorcycle was $11,000. The sale price this week $9799. What is the percent decrease to the nearest percent?
• An online auction store started the bid on an item at $19. The item sold for $49. What was the percent increase to the nearest percent?
• Store sells a running suit for $35. Joey found the same suit online for $29. What is the percent decrease to the nearest percent?
• Curiz threw darts at a dartboard. 40% of his darts hit the bull's-eye. How many darts did NOT hit the bull,s-eye?
• How do you find the percent of change in altitude if a weather balloon moves from 50 ft to 95 ft?
• The circulation of a newsletter decreased from 5200 to 3140. How do you find the percent of decrease in circulation to the nearest percent?
• How do you find the result when 94 is increased by 5%?
• How do you identify the percent of change as an increase or a decrease 75 people to 25 people?
• Jack bought a TV for $200, which he later sold for $175. How do you find the percent of change in the price of the TV?
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• The price of an item yesterday was $65. Today, the price fell to $26. How do you find the percentage decrease?
• The price of an item yesterday was $80. Today, the price rose to $172. How do you find the percentage increase?
• The price of an item yesterday was $120. Today, the price fell to $84. How do you find the percentage decrease?
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• What is the percentage change from 50 to 60?
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• Misha increased her test score from 60% to 80%. What was the approximate percent increase of Misha's test score?
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• Radius of Mars is #14%# of the radius of Neptune. If radius of Mars is #3396.2km#, what is the radius of Neptune?
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• If a number, #x# is increased by 24% then what is the percentage increase in #x^2#?
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