A city's population grew from 120 , 000 120,000 to 138 , 000 138,000 people in one year. What is the percent increase in population?

So a city's population grew from 120,000 to 138,000 people in one year. What is the percent increase in population? Now remember, to find percent change, we need to find the difference between our new and original value, and then divide by our original value. So here we have our original value of 120,000 people, and it grew to our new value of 138,000 people. So to find our change in population, we need to do 138,000 minuteus 120,000. And subtracting those we get 18,000 people is our change in population. And now to find our percent change, we simply take that change in population and divide by the original population of 120,000 people. And we get 0.15, which is in decimal form. So converting to percent form, we get 15%. So the population saw a 15% increase.

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A city's population grew from $120 comma 000$ to $138 comma 000$ people in one year. What is the percent increase in population?

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Identify the original population and the new population. Here, the original population is \$120,000$ and the new population is $138,000$.

Calculate the amount of increase in population by subtracting the original population from the new population: \$138,000 - 120,000$.

Find the percent increase by dividing the increase by the original population: $\frac{\text{increase}}{120,000}$.

Convert the decimal result from the division into a percentage by multiplying by 100: $\left(\frac{\text{increase}}{120,000}\right) \times 100$.

Express the final answer as a percent increase, which tells you how much the population grew relative to the original population.

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