SOLUTION: Find the decrease in the price as a percent Regular: $135 Sale price: $83.00 Can you tell me how do it not just the answer Please

Question 944082: Find the decrease in the price as a percent
Regular: $135
Sale price: $83.00
Can you tell me how do it not just the answer
Please
Found 2 solutions by rfer, MathLover1:
Answer by rfer(16322) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
135-83=52
52/135=0.385=38.5%
Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Find the decrease in the price as a percent:
if regular price is $ and sale price is $, then the regular price has decreased by % or of and you got sale price of $
an equation for it is:
solve for

% or
check:
regular price is $
% of it is $
now subtract $ from the regular price
$ and you got sale price of $

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