Question

A lamp is on sale, and its price is reduced from $80 to $50. What is the percent of decrease?

Answer 1

37.5

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Answer 2

`(30)/(80)` is the fraction of decrease. Converting this to a fraction with a denominator of 100, we get the fraction;

`(37.5)/(100)`
Now we just take the numerator of the number to get the percent, which is the solution.

37.5%