Question

Suppose you add 10% of a number to th lumber, and then you subtract 10% of the total. Is the result greater than, ess than, or equal to the original number?

Answer 1

less than

Explanation:

Let x be the number. We can write an expression with 10% of x added to x. We can convert 10% to 0.1:

= 10/100 = 0.1

Therefore:=0.1•2+4=1.1•x

If we subtract 10% of 1.1x

from 1.1x:=1.1•2-0.1•1.1•2=0.99-2

We get 0.99x which isless than the original num...