Question

Last year, The Richmond Times had a total of 9,960 subscribers. This year, after the paper was bought out, it had 18,924 subscribers. What is the percent of increase in the number of subscribers?

Answer 1

To figure out the percentage increase between two entities, we will use this formula:

`(final value-starting value)/(|startingvalue|)*100`

Plugging in these values will result in an expression looking like this:

`(18,924-9,960)/(9,960)*100`

Therefore, there was a 90% increase in the number of subscribers.