Question

If an item that originally cost $16 is increased to $19, what is the percentage of increase in the item Round your answer to 3 decimal places

Answer 1

Answer: 18.75%

but when you round it , it's gonna be 21.75%

Explanation:

Here's some examples :

Example 1: Jackson’s intern job at a software company paid $15.42 an hour. He graduated from college and accepted a full-time position from the same company for a larger wage of $35.52 an hour. What is Jackson’s percent increase in pay?

Solution: Using the handy-dandy Percent Change Calculator, dropping the two amounts into it quickly returns a percent pay increase of 130.35%. Here’s how the calculator found the percent increase.