Question

your customer count for last week was 5417 due to a product promotion you expect a 2.4% increase this week over last week how many total customers are you expecting this week

Answer 1

The total number of customers last week was 5417 → this number represents the 100% of customers you've had.

For the next week you expect a 2.4% increase, this means that you expect to welcome the number of customers (100%) of last week plus 2.4% more

$100\%+2.4\%=102.4\%$

You can use cross multiplication to determine how many customers you expect for the next week:

100% ____ 5417

102.4% ___ x

Both relationships are at the same ratio so that:

$\begin{gathered} \frac{5417}{100}=\frac{x}{102.4} \\ x=102.4\cdot(\frac{5417}{100}) \\ x=5547.008 \end{gathered}$

You expect to receive 5547 customers this week