Question

Due to lace of funding,the number of students enrolled at the city college went from 7000 last year to 4000 this year . Fine the percent decrease in enrollment

Answer 1

There is 42.8% of decrease in enrollment comparing to previous year.

42.8% of 7000 is 3000 which is the difference. Just divide 3000/7000 to get the numbers

In other words, new enrollmeny is 57.1% of the previous one