Question

The reduce feature on a copy machine is set at 84%. The picture being copied is 4.5 inches wide. What will be the width of yhe reduced picture?

Answer 1

The answer is 3.825 inches, the reduced picture will be 84% of the size of the original

Answer 2

3.78 inches

Explanation:

if the original length is 4.5 and we are making it 84 percent of that size we multiply 4.5 times 84 percent(that is 0.84).

If we type in 4.5 * 0.84 on a calculator the answer comes back as 3.78

so the answer is 3.78 inches