Question

Supervisor: "Your average time to process a sale is 14 minutes. You have to decrease

that by 25% this month in order to meet your goals."
Employee: "Thank you for the feedback. I will work on lowering my processing time to
minutes by the end of the month."
3.5
7
10.5
12
17.5

Answer 1

`\begin{array} \cline{1-1} \textit{\textit{\LARGE a}\% of \textit{\LARGE b}}\\ \cline{1-1} \\ \left( \cfrac{\textit{\LARGE a}}{100} \right)\cdot \textit{\LARGE b} \\\\ \cline{1-1} \end{array}~\hspace{5em}\stackrel{\textit{25\% of 14}}{\left( \cfrac{25}{100} \right)14}\implies \text{\LARGE 3.5}`