SOLUTION: Rate Increase: A student reader is making $8.30 per hour and gets a $0.65 raise. What is the percent increase? (Round to the nearest tenth of a percent.) How do you solve this?

Question 1024261: Rate Increase: A student reader is making $8.30 per hour and gets a $0.65 raise. What is the percent increase? (Round to the nearest tenth of a percent.)
How do you solve this? Thanks.
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

This is the decimal increase in pay
To get %, multiply by

The % increase in pay is 7.8%
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