This year, 1,272 students enrolled in night courses a a local college. last year only 1,200 students enrolled. what was the percent increase in the enrollment? which operation will you use in your first step?

The percent increase in enrollment is 6 %

The operation used in first step is finding the difference between final value and initial value

Given that This year, 1,272 students enrolled in night courses a a local college

Last year only 1,200 students enrolled.

To find: percent increase in the enrollment

The percent increase between two values is the difference between a final value and an initial value, expressed as a percentage of the initial value.

The percent increase is given as:

Here initial value (last year) = 1200 and final value(this year) = 1272

Substituting the values in above formula,

Thus percent increase is 6 %