Question

A furniture store has a chair originally priced at $76 on sale for $58 . what is the percent of decrease rounded to the nearest tenth?

Answer 1

So here is how we are going to find the answer. Firstly, we deduct 58 from 76 and we got 18. The decrease is $18. Now, we are going to find out how many percent is 18 of 76. So we divide 18 by 76 multiplied by 100 and we get 23.7%. Hope this answers your question. Have a great day!