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The price of an item has dropped to $52 today. Yesterday it was $80. Find the percentage decrease.

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Answer:

35% is the percentage decrease.

Explanation:

First, we have to find the difference between the two numbers we're comparing like here as 52 and 80 and we get answer as 28. Then we have to divide 28 by 80 and multiply it by 100 and we get our answer

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