From this year to ten years later the number of people employed as physician assistants in the country is expected to increase by 47% the number of people employed as physician assistants today is 55000 find the predicted number of physician assistants after ten years

If there are 55,000 physician assistants today and it will increase by 47% in 10 years then there will be 80,850 physician assistants. 55,000 times 0.47 equals 25,850 which will be the amount of additional physician assistants. Then add 55,000 and 25,850 to get the total of 80,850.