How do you find the percent of increase or decrease given Original: 50 and New: 56?

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Jim G.
Jun 2, 2016

12% increase

Explanation:

The value has increased from 50 to 56 . That is an increase of 6.

To express this as a color(blue)"percentage increase" write the increase as a fraction of the original and multiply by 100.

percentage increase =6/50xx100/1=6/(cancel(50)^1)xx(cancel(100)^2)/1=12

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