Question

What is the approximate percent decrease when a fish count goes down from 850 to 500?

Answer 1

to get this, you divide the smaller number by the larger one and get 0.5882... 500 is about 59% of 850, so to find the percent lost, you subtract that from 100 to get 41% decrease

Answer 2

What is the approximate percent decrease when a fish count goes down from 850 to 500?The answer is 40%