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
[tex]100\%+2.4\%=102.4\%[/tex]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:
[tex]\begin{gathered} \frac{5417}{100}=\frac{x}{102.4} \\ x=102.4\cdot(\frac{5417}{100}) \\ x=5547.008 \end{gathered}[/tex]You expect to receive 5547 customers this week
