How to Calculate Percentage Increase in Ice Cream Production
What is the percentage increase in ice cream production of a machine that produced 44 ice creams per minute before reconditioning and now produces 55 ice creams per minute after reconditioning?
Calculate the percentage increase.
Answer:
Before reconditioning, an ice cream machine produced 44 ice creams per minute.
Now, after reconditioning, it speeds up to 55 ice creams per minute.
= 55 - 44 = 11
= 11 / 44 = 0.25
= 0.25 * 100% = 25%.
Thus, it increased its production by 25%.
To calculate the percentage increase in ice cream production, we first subtract the initial production rate from the new production rate to find the increase. In this case, the increase is 11 ice creams per minute.
Next, we divide the increase by the initial production rate (11/44) to get 0.25.
Multiplying 0.25 by 100% gives us the percentage increase, which is 25%.
Therefore, the speed of the ice cream machine increased by 25% after reconditioning.