Question

What is the percent decrease from $80 to$64 rounded to the nearest percent

Answer 1

[(80-64)/80]*100 expression
[16/80]*100         do the change in price
0.2*100               division
20                       multiply
20%                    add percent sign

Answer 2

Answer:

20%

Step-by-step explanation:

The first step in finding how much the quantity decreased. We do a subtraction:

$80-64=16$

and now we must know how much percentage is 16 of 80, for this we divide:

$\frac{16}{80}=\frac{1}{5} = 0.2$

and finally we convert this decimal value to a percentage multiplying by 100%

0.2(100%) = 20%

the quantity decreased by 20%