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Finding the Increase or Decrease in Percent

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Find the resulting quantity when:
$25 k m$ is increased by $5 %$ .

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Solution

Step : Finding the resulting quantity

Given, $25 k m$ is increased by $5 %$ .

So, $5 %$ of $25 k m = \frac{5}{100} \times 25 = 1.25 k m$

Increased distance $= 25 k m + 1.25 k m = 26.25 k m$ .

Hence, increase in distance is $26.25 k m$ .

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