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Thank you We sneak in then here's your shmoop du

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jour brought to you by raises and promotions The best

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things about having a job aside from donut friday aren't

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well brielle makes s dollars per year and she just

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got a raise of nine grand a year Which of

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the following expressions represents the percent increase in her salary

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And here the lancers All right well hopefully brielle didn't

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sign anything saying she makes s dollars per year because

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that's probably giving her employer along too much leeway there

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Okay so brielle makes some unknown annual salary and she

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just got a nine grand raised thiss question wants us

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to figure out what expression accurately shows the percent increase

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in salary Unfortunately for us there's a handy dandy formula

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for this one Any time we're looking to calculate a

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percent increase its one hundred times the size of the

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increase over the original amount So we just needed plugging

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a couple numbers the size of the increases Nine grand

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So we put that in our numerator and the original

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noun is s your formula becomes one hundred times nine

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thousand over s and the answer is b is in 00:01:16.811 --> [endTime] boston cream doughnut Yeah

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