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I’ve tried 32 and 140 it was incorrect how do i solve this?-example-1
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In order to find how many robberies there were in Springfield in 2012, start writing the percentages as decimals


\begin{gathered} 100\%=1 \\ 8\%=0.08 \end{gathered}

if it went down by 8%, it can be represented as a subtraction


1-0.08

then, multiply by the number reported in 2011


\begin{gathered} 175\cdot(1-0.08) \\ 175\cdot0.92 \\ 161 \end{gathered}

There were 161 robberies in 2012.

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