Negative numbers are farther left than positive numbers, and are therefore less than positive numbers. And the farther away a negative number is from 0, the "lesser" is it's value so -6 is less that -5 because -5 is close to 0. The second option is the only statement that follows this. Hope this helps!
The decrease in students are <span>350⋅0.36=126</span>
The number of students are <span>350−126=224</span> in this year.[Ans]The number of students are 224 <span>in this year. https://socratic.org/questions/last-year-the-6th-grade-had-350-students-this-year-the-number-decreas... </span>
