Question

The price of a television decreased from $1000.00 to $800.00. What was the percent of decrease? a. 2% b. 18% c. 20% d. 25%

Answer 1

If we divide 800/1000, we get .8 This means The price of $800 is only 80% of  $1000. Furthermore, this also means that there was a decrease in price of 20%. The answer is C.