Question

Suppose the population of a certain city is 5700 thousand. It is expected to decrease to 4823 thousand in 50 years. Find the percent decrease

Answer 1

In order to find the percent decrease, we just need to divide the population decrease by the total population.

So we have that:

`\text{percentage}=(4823000)/(5700000)=(4823)/(5700)=0.8461=84.61\text{\%}`

So the percent decrease of the population is 84.61%