You work in a chemical lab. Last quarter, you successfully completed an average of about 5 chemical analyses per day. This quarter, you have increased this average to about 8 per day. What is you percentage increase

Increase by 62.5%.

5/8 times 100

percentage increase is 60%

Step-by-step explanation:

given data

average = 5 per day

increase average = 8 per day

to find out

percentage increase

solution

we know starting initially average is 5 per day and increase about 9 per day

so percentage increase = (increase average - average) / average * 100 ... 1

put here value

percentage increase = (increase average - average) / average * 100

percentage increase = (8 - 5) / 5 * 100

percentage increase = 60

so percentage increase is 60%