Question

The price of a house is originally listed at $155,000. The owners are having a hard time selling it and decide to reduce the price to
$128,650. What is the percentage decrease of the price of the house?

1.7%

17%

83%

26.35%

Answer 1

Answer: 83%

Step-by-step explanation: original price divided by the decreased price = percent decrease of house.

155000 divided by 128650 = 83%. Hope this helps you!

Answer 2

Answer:

83%

Step-by-step explanation:

We can put this into a fraction to get the ratio of the new price over the old price

$\frac{128650}{155000}$

This will give us the percentage of how much was decreased.

The answer you get is .83

Bring 2 decimal places to the right to get 83 (converting from decimal to percentage)

You get 83 percent to be your answer