Question 1010088: 2. Mary’s salon sales increased from $105,000 in 2013 to $125,000 in 2014. What is the percentage increase in sales?
Sales in 2014 – Sales in 2013
Sales in 2013
Answer by Miniml1(17)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! A problem that is asking how much money you made or lost starts with subtracting the first amount of sales you made which was 105000 from the most recent amount of sales made which is 125000.
Now you have to find how much percent of this number goes into your first sales. If you want to think of this visually, you can think of 105000 as a circle which we will call a pie. You made 20000 more dollars the second time than you did the first time. The 20000 is a slice inside inside of the 105000 dollar pie. 105000 is 100% of the pie since it's the whole thing. Since 20000 is only a slice of the pie, you can find what percentage number goes with that slice by dividing the slice number by the entire pie number.
20000/105000=0.1905
Then you can multiply the decimal number by 100 to turn it into a percentage number. Your sales increased by 19.05%.
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