Question

What is A decreased by 20% and then increased by 20% of that? Please show your work.

Answer 1

A - (20% of A) = 80% of A + (20% of (80% of A) = 96% of A

So if A is 100:

100 - (.2 * 100) = 80 + (.2 * 80) = 96

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