SOLUTION: If a number is 20% more than the other how much percent is the second number less than the first?
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Question 986980: If a number is 20% more than the other how much percent is the second number less than the first?
Answer by ikleyn(52824) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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x = 1.2*y.
Hence, = . = 0.833333*x.
It means that y is 16.666% less than x.
Do not be shocked:
"x is in 20% more than y" means that "x is in 20% more than y measured in units of y".
"y is in 16.666% less than x" means that "y is in 16.666% less than x measured in units of x".
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