Question

Last quarter, 200 students participated in the after-school tutoring program. This quarter, 184 students are participating in the after-school tutoring program. Find the percent of decrease from last quarter to this quarter.

Answer 1

take the absolute value of the difference and divide it by the original number.
|200 - 184| / 200 = 16/200 = 0.08...multiply by 100 to get the percent = 8%
so there was an 8% decrease from last quarter to this quarter