Question

Find the percent of decrease from 95 to 60.

Enter your answer, rounded to the nearest tenth,

Answer 1

Q: If a number decreases to
`60` when it is
`95`, what number will it decrase to when it is
`100`?

This is the question we should ask ourselves when we want to find the percentage of decrase. We will get the result using direct proportion and round to the nearest tenth.

• 
  `(95)/(60)=(100)/(x)`

We multiply by each other to solve the equation.

• 
  `95(x)=60.100`
• 
  `x=(6000)/(95)`
• 
  `x=63.157`

If we round the number to the nearest tenth, the result is as follows.

• 
  `63.2`