An increase from 16 to 20 is what percent of increase?
1 Answer
Oct 5, 2016
25%
Explanation:
Your measure start at 16. So that is the basis (unless stated otherwise) upon which you reference the change.
That is:
This gives:
For this to be a percentage we need the denominator such that it becomes 100. Thus we have:
To express this in the standard script form we have 25%
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Foot note:
Sometimes the use of % and its meaning is misunderstood.
The % that follows the 25 really means that we have 25 parts out of 100. In other words:
To coin a phrase; 25% and
