Question

A company wants to decrease their energy use by 15%. If their electric bill is currently $1300 a month, what will their bill be if they are successful?

Answer 1

Since 15%=0.15 by moving the decimal 2 places to the right, 15% of 1300 can be found by multiplying 1300 by 0.15, resulting in 195 as 15%. Since we have to subtract 15% from our answer (15% is not our final answer), 1300-195=1105 as our answer