SOLUTION: Two numbers are 50% , 60% less than a third number. What percentage is the second number of the first?
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Question 814912: Two numbers are 50% , 60% less than a third number. What percentage is the second number of the first?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39621) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What is the what?
-0.5n+n and -0.6n+n ?
This is what you probably mean:
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The first number is 0.5n;
The second number is 0.6n.
The third number is n.
The second number is larger than the first number.
The second number is 20% more than the first number.
Another way to compare second and first is , meaning that the second number is 120% of the first number.
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