Question

The price of a pair of pants decreased from $49.99 to $19.95. What was the percent decrease in the price?

Answer 1

Answer:

60.092%

Step-by-step explanation:

For this problem, we will simply create a ratio to find the difference created between the prices, and subtract this from 1 (100%) to find the percent decrease.

$19.95 / $49.99 = 0.39908

1 - 0.39908 = 0.60092

Given that we take away the difference from the price from the percent of the whole, we find that the price decrease is 60.092%.

Thus, we have found the percent decrease.

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