Question

The number 85 is decreased to 83. What is the percentage by which the

number was decreased, to the nearest tenth of a percent?

Answer 1

~ 2.3%

Explanation:

A percentage is a amount divided by the total.

2/85 (2 is the amount decreased) 0.02352941176470588235294117647059‬

That makes around 0.023.

That multiplied by 100 is 2.3 and that makes the percentage.

So yeah.