Question

If the price of a game decreased from $60 to $36 what is percent of decrease

Answer 1

The answer is forty percent. $36 is sixty percent of $60 which means that it decrease by forty percent to reach sixty percent.

Answer 2

Well basically you went down $24; 60-24=36. So to find the percentage, you would do 24/60 also known as 40 percent decrease.