Question

The price of a gallon of unleaded gas has dropped to 2.85 today. Yesterday's price was 2.91. Find the percentage decrease. Round your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent.

Answer 1

2.1

Explanation:

put change over original times percent over 100

so .06 times 100 is 6 and 6 divided by 2.91 is 2.06 and rounding to the nearest tenth would be 2.1%

Answer 2

2.85 divided by 2.91 is 0.97938144329

so about 97.9 percent 2.1 percent decrease