Question

the population of a town increases from 60 000 to 65 000 then the percentage of increase is:

Answer 1

"Percent increase or decrease with measuring the percent changes between two values. The Percent Change Calculator uses this formula:

% change = ( New Value - Old Value ) × 100%

|Old Value|

|Old Value| represents absolute value of the reference (this is made in order to work well with both positive and negative values of Old Value and New Value so the answer is 8.333333333333332.

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Answer 2

A change from 60000 to 65000 represents a positive change (increase) of 8.33%

It is calculated by using the formula below:

Percent change = [(New - Old) / |Old|] x 100%

Percent change = [(65000 - 60000) / |60000|] x 100 = [(5000) / 60000] x 100 = 8.33 % (increase)

Where: 60000 is the old value and 65000 is the new value.

In this case we have a positive change (increase) of 8.33 percent because the new value is greater than the old value.