Percent Increase and Decrease Multiplier

A 23% decrease would mean a multiplier of ____________.

• 1.23

• 0.23

• 0.77

• 0.87

A 45% increase would mean a multiplier of ____________.

• 1.45

• 0.55

• 0.45

• 45

A 3.5% increase would mean a multiplier of ____________.

• 0.035

• 1.035

• 96.5

• 35

An initial population of 25,000 increases by 16% each year. What is the population at 3 years?

• 102

• 14,818

• 102,400,000

• 39,022

An initial 10,000 TikTok followers decreased by 5% each month. What is the multiplier?

• 1.05

• .95

• 0.5

• 0.05

Percent decrease means starting with 100% and _____________ the given percent.

• subtracting

• adding

• multiplying

• dividing

An initial 10,000 TikTok followers decreased by 5% each month. How many followers will there be after 6 months? Round to the nearest follower. There are no partial followers.

• 13,401

• 7,351

• 156

• 9,999

Last year, 2,376 people attended a summer music festival. This year, attendance was 2,950. What was the percent of change in attendance to the nearest whole percent?

• Increase 24%

• Increase 19%

• Decrease 24%

• Decrease 19%

One week, 72 people got a speeding ticket. The next week, only 36 people got a speeding ticket. What is the percent of change in the speeding tickets?

• Increase 50%

• Decrease 50%

• Increase 1%

• Decrease 1%

Last week, you finished level 2 of a video game in 32 minutes. Today, you finished level 2 in 28 minutes. What is your percent of change?

• Increase 12.5%

• Decrease 12.5%

• Increase 4%

• Decrease 4%