Question

Jamiya and jmarques are having a competition to see who can read more books.Jamiya reads 28% fewer books than j'marques.j'marques reads x books. Write an expression to represent the number of books that Jamiya reads

Answer 1

0.72x

Explanation:

28% (of x) fewer than x will be ...

... x - 0.28·x = x(1 -0.28) = 0.72x

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Of course, you know that 28% = 28/100 = 0.28.