What is the percent of increase from 50 to 90?

1 Answer
Mar 7, 2017

See the entire solution process and result below:

Explanation:

The formula for calculating the percentage or rate of change between two values is:

p=NOO100

Where:

p is the percent change - what we are solving for in this problem
N is the New Value - 90 for this problem
O is the Old Value - 50 for this problem

Substituting and solving for p gives:

p=905050100

p=4050100

p=400050

p=80

There was an 80% increase.