Question

Yesterday it took 40 minutes to drive to school. Today is took 32 minutes to drive to

school. What is the amount of percent decrease?

Answer 1

20%

Explanation:

To find the percent decrease, we do old number subtracted from the new numbers over old.

We do

40 - 32 = 8

Then we put the 8 over the old and get

8/40

In percentage form it would be 20%