Question

Solve the problem.

The price of a printer was reduced from $400 to $300. What was the percent decrease?

30%

33.3%

25%

75%

Answer 1

25%.

Explanation:

We are going to do a rule of three:

`(\$400)/(\$300)=(100\%)/(x)`

`x=(300*100)/(400)`

x= 75%.

Then, the percent decrease was 25%.