Question

Please help find the percent of decrease?!

Answer 1

you should get 29% for your answer on this one

Answer 2

The easiest way to do do this is to first find out how much % 500 is of 700

first, we can just set it up as a simplified fraction
$\frac{7}{5}$
which is equal to..
$1.4$

then we divide 100 by this number
$100 \div 1.4 = 71.4285...$

*now to check*
multiply the quotient by .01 to get .7142...

then multiply that by 700

we should get a product of 500, confirming our answer

now that we're sure, subtract 71 from 100 to find the percentage decrease

$amswer = 29\%$