Question

Identify the percent of change as an increase or a decrease

Answer 1

Answer:

The percent of decrease is 56.7%

Step-by-step explanation:

There is a change from 120 meals to 52 meals.

This is a decrease.

The percent of decrease is given by:

$\frac{decrement}{original \: value} \times 100\%$

We substitute the values to get:

$\frac{52 - 120}{120} \times 100\%$

We subtract the numerator to get:

$\frac{ - 68}{120} \times 100\%$

$= - 0.566667 \times 100\%$

This simplifies to:

$- 56.67\%$

To the nearest tenth, the percent of decrease is :

$56.7\%$