2014 AMC 10B Problems/Problem 7
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Problem
Suppose and A is % greater than . What is ?
Solution
We have that A is greater than B, so . We solve for . We get
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Solution 2
The question is basically asking the percentage increase from to . We know the formula for percentage increase is . We know the new is and the original is . We also must multiple by to get out of it's fractional/percentage form. Therefore, the answer is or .
Solution 3 (Answer Choices)
Without loss of generality, let and forcing to be . Plugging our values for and into these answer choices, we find that only returns .
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