Question

What is the decimal multiplier to increase by 25%?

Answer 1

Answer:

The percentage increase is found by dividing the increase by the starting number, then multiplying that result by 100%. Note: the percent increase measures FROM the first value. An increase from 50 of 25 is a change of 50% (25 is the difference between the two numbers, and 25 is 50% of 50).

1.25 is the decimal multiplier to increase by 25%.

Answer 2

The decimal multiplier to increase the value by 25% is 1.25.

• The Percentage is defined as a relative value that indicates the hundredth part of a quantity.

Example: 1 favorable part of 10parts is equal to 10  favorable parts of 100 parts so the percentage of favorable parts is 10.

• The Percentage is symbolically donated as %.

Example: 5% implies 5 parts of a 100.

• Y% can be written in decimal form as y/100 or 0.01 * Y.  

• Increasing the value of a number by 25% implies increasing the value of the present number by 1/4th of the original value. It is mathematically expressed as,

=> Increasing the value by 25% = original value + 25%( original value),

=> Increasing the value by 25% = original value + ¼(original value),

=> Increasing the value by 25% = 5/4(original value),

=> Increasing the value by 25% = 1.25(original value).

Therefore, the decimal multiplier to increase by 25% is 1.25