A 50% increase is where you increase your current value by an additional half. You can find this value by finding half of your current value and adding this to the value. For example, if you wanted to find what a 50% increase to 80 was, you’d divide by 2 to get 40, and add the two values together to get 120. A 50% increase is different to a 100% increase, which is double the original value. Read more