SOLUTION: 1.Holly orders a 12" pizza, but decides that is to much food and changes it to a medium 8" pizza. If the area of the large pizza is 36 square inches and the area of the medium pizz

Question 1006520: 1.Holly orders a 12" pizza, but decides that is to much food and changes it to a medium 8" pizza. If the area of the large pizza is 36 square inches and the area of the medium pizza is 16" square inches, what is the percent decrease in the area?
round to the nearest tenth
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
The decrease in area is:
in2
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The fraction of the decrease is:

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The percent of the decrese is:

55.6% decrease

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