Question

In a competition sequence threw the javelin 69.93 meters this was an improvement of 8% on his previous best throw calculate the length of his previous best throw

Answer 1

If the improvement was 8%, then that’s 108%=1.08 of the previous throw, so the previous throw was 69.93/1.08=64.75m.

Answer 2

69.93×0.08=5.5944 these is the correct answer