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Percentage points

Secondary 1

A school’s attendance rate was 80%. It rose by 8 percentage points. Zara says this is a relative increase of 8%. Find the new attendance rate and determine whether Zara is correct.

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Answer:88% Zara is incorrect. The relative increase is 10%.

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