Last year 120 students recived high honers at graduation. this year 144 students recived high honers. what was the percent increase from last year to this year

12.5%

Step-by-step explanation:

what I done was subtract 120 from 144 which will leave 24 then I find the percentage.

This makes it 3/24. When you divide the fraction out, you get 0.125. To turn that into a percentage, you simply multiply by 100. 0.125*100=12.5% you can check this by taking 12.5% of 24, which will give you an answer of 3

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step-by-step explanation:

this excerpt is taken from the book “we shall not be moved : the women’s factory strike of 1909 “ and is written by joan dash. it is the story of the great strike when almost 30thousand women working in factories in america formed a union to fight unsafe working conditions, long working hours and miserable wages.

question: which best states the author’s purpose for including this information in the text?

answer: to challenge the reader’s ideas about a historical event