Travel Price Increases ...

[Scott330ci]

Quick Maths Question ...

During the week I pretend I am poor for kicks and get the bus.

Bus fare was £1 in 2009. Bus fare is now £1.20.

What is the % increase?

Thanks

[CaptainSlow]

ohdear

[robinhood21]

One fifth.

[Matt172]

can you seriously not work that out for yourself??

[mickk]

Scott330ci said:

What is the % increase?

A bloody liberty, take the car.

[OzzyR1]

LOL, is this a serious question

[Puggit]

This country is going to the dogs, etc...

[Doofus]

The % increase, or more correctly "percentage increase" is a term to describe the increase as a function of the original value.

HTH

[Famous Graham]

Is this the followup thread to "why is tea with milk in it murky?"

[Simpo Two]

At least he can spell.

Expecting literacy AND numeracy after 12 years of Labour Government is too much to ask I think. But at least schools will soon have to teach gender equality, phew.

[BliarOut]

Scott330ci said:

Quick Maths Question ...

During the week I pretend I am poor for kicks and get the bus.

Bus fare was £1 in 2009. Bus fare is now £1.20.

What is the % increase?

Thanks

Per cent ... Per hundred.

[Simpo Two]

BliarOut said:

Per cent ... Per hundred.

You expect him to know Latin as well?!

[mybrainhurts]

Come on, lads, somebody put him out of his misery...

[BliarOut]

I want to see him work it out now we've given him a few clues... I'm so glad labour pumped all that money into education.

[Famous Graham]

mybrainhurts said:

Come on, lads, somebody put him out of his misery...

I get the feeling no one dares and it has to be a trick question

[mybrainhurts]

Famous Graham said:

mybrainhurts said:

Come on, lads, somebody put him out of his misery...

I get the feeling no one dares and it has to be a trick question

I know...I'm scared stiff

[BliarOut]

mybrainhurts said:

Famous Graham said:

mybrainhurts said:

Come on, lads, somebody put him out of his misery...

I get the feeling no one dares and it has to be a trick question

I know...I'm scared stiff

At your age that's a bonus...

[4nonymous]

I love the fact that if he googled "percentage increase calculator" he could have saved himself some serious embarrasment.

Also my reaction to the op was quite literally this :

[OzzyR1]

LOL, the OP has gone very quiet, presumably trying to work out how to express an increase of twenty pence as a percentage.

(If you're reading the clue is in the words...)

[Menguin]

I'm expecting QI esque alarm bells to start ringing if I answer