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The price of a car has been reduced from $18,500 to $12,025. What is the percentage decrease of the price of the car?

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35%


If you subtract 25% its would be 13,875, so I added about 5% (25%+5%... +5%) each time until I got the answer... of 18,500$ -35%= 12,025$
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