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If you decrease £40 by 25% what do you get? i'm really bad at dividing and all that..

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Answer:

£30

Explanation:

hii :)

to solve this you can divide 40 by a hundred (to find 1%) and multiply that by 25 percent (to get 25% of 40) and then subtract that to find the decrease of 40 by 25%.

so 40/100=0.4

0.4*25=10

40-10= £30

hope this helped :)

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