How do you find the percent increase from 42 acres to 75 acres?

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Answer 1 · 2016-10-30T20:36:39

$78.6%$ increase

Percentage loss, profit, increase, decrease, discount or mark-up are all calculated in exactly the same way:

$%" change" = ("change")/("original") xx 100%$

The change from 42 acres to 75 acres is $75-42 = 33$

The percent change = $33/42 xx 100%$

$= 78.57%$

Note that: $xx 100%$ is the same as $xx100/100 " or " xx1$

The $xx100$ is used in the calculation, but the % sign is carried down to the answer.