Solve the percent change problems using the proportion formula. State if the change is an increase or decrease. State the amount of change, original amount, and percent for each situation. Substitute the values into the proportional formula equation and solve. State your final result in a complete sentence using the appropriate units. 4) A sunflower's height was measured at 42 inches. The second time the flower was measured its height was 70 inches. What was the percent change in the height of the sunflower between the two measurements?

Your friend swims on the school team. in his first four races, his times are 24.7, 23.5, 25.6, and 27.2 seconds. which time listed for his next race would make the range larger?

An annual marathon covers a route that has a distance of approximately 26 miles. winning times for this marathon are all over 2 hours. the following data are the minutes over 2 hours for the winning male runners over two periods of 20 years each. earlier period 14 12 15 22 13 10 19 13 9 14 20 18 16 20 23 12 18 17 6 13 recent period 7 11 7 14 8 9 11 14 8 7 9 8 7 9 9 9 9 8 10 8 (a) make a stem-and-leaf display for the minutes over 2 hours of the winning times for the earlier period. use two lines per stem. (use the tens digit as the stem and the ones digit as the leaf. enter none in any unused answer blanks. for more details, view how to split a stem.) minutes beyond 2 hours earlier period 0 1 2 (b) make a stem-and-leaf display for the minutes over 2 hours of the winning times for the recent period. use two lines per stem. (use the tens digit as the stem and the ones digit as the leaf. enter none in any unused answer blanks.) minutes beyond 2 hours recent period (c) compare the two distributions. how many times under 15 minutes are in each distribution

Aschool allots ? 1500 to spend on a trip to the theatre. theatre tickets have a regular cost of ? 55 each and are on offer for 1 5 off. a train ticket for the day will cost ? 12 each. if 2 teachers and the maximum number of students attend, how much money will the school have left over?