Question

A farmer wants to increase the size of one of his square pens. The pen measures 10 feet on each side. The farmer plans to increase each side of the pen to be 160% of its current measure.

How many square feet larger is the area of the new pen than the area of the current pen?

Answer 1

156 feet larger

Explanation:

Alright so 160% of 10 is 16 , now we do 16x16 = 256

Now we do 10x10 to find the old square feet which is 100

256-100=156