Question

Then choose whether you would find the percent increase or percent decrease: A town’s population was 36,067 in 2005. Ten years later, the population is 37,902. *

Answer 1

To answer this question, we can proceed as follows:

1. We have that the change is (in percentage):

Then, we have:

$\frac{37902-36067}{36067}\cdot100=\frac{1835}{36067}\cdot100\approx0.0508\cdot100\approx5.087$

Therefore, the percent increase was about 5.1%.