Answer:
The current through it will also decrease to half of its former value because according to Ohm's law the current flowing through a resistor is directly proportional to the potential difference applied across its ends provided that the temperature and some other necessary conditions remain constant.
This is mathematically represented as follows;

The current is thus given as

if R is constant and V is reduced to half, then we have the following;

Simplifying further we obtain

Equation (3) shows that the current I is also reduced to half.
This would be an illustration of Newton's first law of motion. Law of inertia, an object moving at constant velocity will keep moving at constant velocity until a force is acted upon it. Inertia is the tendency of an object to keep moving in a particular direction resisting to change, unless a force acts upon the object.