QUESTION 7
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Sales of frozen pizza for a club fund-raiser increased from 500 one year to 700 the next year. What was the percent of increase?
\( 40 \% \)
\( 71.4 \% \)
\( 60 \% \)
\( 28.6 \% \)

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\( \% \text{ increase} = 40 \% \)

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Step 1 ：\( \% \text{ increase} = \frac{\text{change}}{\text{original}} \times 100 \)

Step 2 ：\( \% \text{ increase} = \frac{700 - 500}{500} \times 100 \)

Step 3 ：\( \% \text{ increase} = 40 \% \)