A popular brand of running shoes cost a local store $68 for each pair. If the store sells the shoes for $119, what is the percent of increase in the price

Okay, to start, we need to find how much they increased the price!

$119 - $68 = $51

They increased the total price by $59

To find the percent of increase, we need to know what percent of $68 is $59

We can discover this with simple division

59 / 68 = 0.867

This means that there was about an 87% increase in price for the shoes!

What a rip-off lol

I hope I helped! :)

answer: 1) twenty-seven times y

              2) twenty-seven multiplied by y

step-by-step explanation:

12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 7 hours.

4: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 3 hours.

this means that from 4: 00 p.m to 7: 00 p.m. this represents 3/7 of what was lost from 12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m.

after knowing this, after doing 11,600 - 6,800 = 4,800

4,800 represents 3/7 of what was lost for 7 hours.

we then divide 4,800 by 3 which gets 1,600.

because we know that 1,600 represents 1/7 of how much water was lost, we just have to multiply by 7, which gets 11,200.   after adding 11,200 to how much water was left at 7: 00 p.m. which was 6,800. 11,200 + 6,800 = 18,000

this means that the pool originally had 18,000 gallons in the pool.

you can also check your work by doing 18,000 - 4(1600), which becomes           1800 - 6400 which gets you 11,600.