Percent Increase

<p><a target="_blank" href="https://www.prepswift.com/quizzes/quiz/prepswift-percent-increase">Percent Increase Exercise</a></p><p>Imagine that someone has $12$ marbles yesterday and $18$ marbles today. What was the <strong><span style="color:#27ae60;">Percent Increase</span></strong> in the number of marbles this person had from yesterday to today? You can use the formula below:</p> <p>$$\frac{|\textrm{difference}|}{\textrm{smaller number}}$$</p> <p>$$\frac{18-12}{12} = \frac{6}{12} = 50\%$$</p> <p>Note that the percent increase can never be negative. That&#39;s why there is an absolute value in the numerator of the equation.</p>