4 years ago

The price of an item has dropped to $63 today. Yesterday it was $140 . Find the percentage decrease.

Mathematics

1 answer:

soldi70 [24.7K]4 years ago

4 0

Hello,

We calculate the amount of the decrease at first :

$ 140 - $ 63 = $ 77

The percentage of decrease is :

77 × 100 / 140 = 55 %

<u>The percentage of decrease is 55 %.</u>

Bye ;)

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