Question

In August, a grocery store averaged about 620 customers per day. In September, the average number of customers per day at the store was 1075. What was the approximate percent increase in the average number of customers per day from August to September?

255%
73%
70%
59%

Answer 1

For these types of questions you normally do the new amount - original amount / the original. So 1075-620/620 which gives you 73.39%.