The number of people who attended the school annual day was 960 in year 2019. While, the next year only 900 people attended annual day due to rain. What is the percentage decrease in the attendance?
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o encourage more sales, a store has lowered the price of a particular video game from $50 to $40. What is the percentage price decrease?
Possible Answers:
20%
25%
30%
15%
35%
Correct answer:
20%
Explanation:
To find the percent of change, you must divide the difference between the original and new amounts by the original amount. In this case, it would be 50−4050, or 1050, which is equivalent to 20%.
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Example Question #3 : How To Find The Percent Of Decrease
In a town, the population was 67,000. A disease epidemic strikes this town wiping 9,000 people out. What is the percent decrease of the population.
Possible Answers:
13.4%
5.7%
8.9%
Answer:
the population change is 9,000. The percentage of population loss is just the change in a population divided by the original population.
x=9,00067,000=0.134
Turn 0.134 into a percent so that we get 13.4%. So the percent of population loss is 13.4%.
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