Question

The price of a gallon of gas dropped from 3.50 to 2.87 by what percentage was the price gas reduced

Answer 1

18%

Explanation:

To do this, we first divide 2.87 by 3.50. This gets us 0.82. So we now know that 2.87 is 82% of 3.50. But we're trying to find the reduced amount. So we now Do 100%-82% (82% being 2.87) to get 18%. So the answer is 18%. To make sure we are right, we do 18% of 3.50 to get 0.63 cents. We then take 3.50 and subtract 0.63 to get 2.87. So it reduced by 18%