How do you decrease $50 by 10%?
1 Answer
Mar 30, 2017
See the entire solution process below:
Explanation:
First, we need to find out what 10% of $50 is?
"Percent" or "%" means "out of 100" or "per 100", Therefore 10% can be written as
When dealing with percents the word "of" means "times" or "to multiply".
Finally, lets call the number we are looking for "n".
Putting this altogether we can write this equation and solve for
We now subtract this from