A small town had a population of 960 people last year. The population grew to 1200 people this year. By what percentage did the population grow?

Respuesta :

In order to find the percentage you would divide the new number by the old number. In this case it would be 1200 divided by 960 which comes out to 1.25 meaning that the population grew by 125%!

Answer:

25%

Step-by-step explanation:

First, find what percentage of 960, 1200 is. In other words, what number (x) multiplied by 960 is 1200.

960x=1200

x=1200/960 which simplifies to 1.25 which is 125%

So 1200 is 125% of 960, but we need to find the amount that it grew. To do this we subtract 100% from 125% because the population initially was at 100%.

125-100= 25

So the population grew 25%