Question

A cereal company used to fill the boxes with 16 ounces of cereal. They have reduced that amount to 14 ounces. The percent decrease is 87.5%. True or false

Answer 1

This is a true statement


%87.5 = .875 in decimal form
multiply 16 by 8.75 and it will give you 14

hope this helped

Answer 2

False

Explanation:

Given: A cereal company used to fill the boxes with 16 ounces of cereal. They have reduced that amount to 14 ounces.

Decreased amount = 16 -14 = 2 ounces.

Now let's find the decreased percentage using the following formula.

Decrease percent =
`(decreased amount)/(original amount) *100`

=
`(2)/(16) *100`

=
`(200)/(16)`

= 12.5%

The percentage of decrease is 12.5%.

Therefore, the answer is false