Percentage Increase/Examples/Arbitrary Example 1

Examples of Percentage Decrease

Let the price of an item $Q$ be increased from $\$ 400$ to $\$ 500$.

Then the percentage increase of $Q$ is:

$\dfrac {500 - 400} {400} \times 100 = 25 \%$

Sources

• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): percentage increase