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After a 15% increase, a town has 115 people. What was the population before the increase?

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  • 06-11-2020

Answer:

100 people

Step-by-step explanation:

Population Of People=115Percentagencrease=15%

The New Population corresponds to 115%

(That is 100+15)

We want to find the population that corresponds to 100% that is the original population.

Therefore Original Population;

[tex] \frac{100}{115}\times {115}{} [/tex]

[tex]100 \: people[/tex]

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