Question

Growing up, Joe lived in a small town. When he left for college, the population was 840.

The population has grown by 5% after Joe's first year of college. What is the new
population? Show your work.

Answer 1

Thé new population is 882

Answer 2

the population is 840 initially to which we subtract the 95% that leaves us a total of 42 to which we add the initial amount of population, which would give us as a final result 882

reply:

The total number of people that increased the population was 42 since Joe left, but in total there are 882 people.