How do you find the result when 94 is increased by 5%?

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Answer 1 · 2017-01-09T00:02:13

98.7 is the result of 94 increased by 5%.

Let's call the result we are looking for $r$ $r$ .

We can then write an equation to solve this problem as:

$r = 94 + (5 %$ $r = 94 + (5%$ of $94)$ $94)$

"Percent" or "%" means "out of 100" or "per 100", Therefore 5% can be written as $\frac{x}{100}$ $x/100$ .

When dealing with percents the word "of" means "times" or "to multiply".

We can now rewrite and solve the solution equation as:

$r = 94 + (\frac{5}{100} \times 94)$ $r = 94 + (5/100 xx 94)$

$r = 94 + \frac{470}{100}$ $r = 94 + 470/100$

$r = 94 + 4.70$ $r = 94 + 4.70$

$r = 98.7$ $r = 98.7$