document.write( "Question 1175098: A company's sales in Seattle were $400,000 in 2012, while their sales in Portland were $295,000 for the same year. Complete the following statements:\r
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document.write( "a. Seattle's sales were % larger than Portland's.
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document.write( "b. Portland sales were % smaller than Seattle's.
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document.write( "c. Portland sales were % of Seattle's.\r
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document.write( "Give answers accurate to at least one decimal place. \n" );
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Algebra.Com's Answer #800671 by Theo(13342)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! seattle's sales were 400,000 and portland's sales were 295,000 in 2012..\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "the difference between seattle's sales and portland's sales in 2012 was 400,000 minus 295,000 = 105,000. \n" ); document.write( "seattle's sales were larger than portland's by 105,000. \n" ); document.write( "portland's sales were smaller than seattle's by 105,000.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "complete the following statements.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "a. Seattle's sales were 35.6% larger than Portland's.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "seattle's sales were larger by 105,000. \n" ); document.write( "portland's sales were 295,000. \n" ); document.write( "105,000 / 295,000 = .3559322034 * 100 = ***** 35.6% ***** \n" ); document.write( "the numerator is the amount of sales greater than portland's. \n" ); document.write( "the denominator is the amount of portland's sales.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "b. Portland sales were 26.3% smaller than Seattle's.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "portland's sales were smaller by 105,000. \n" ); document.write( "seattle's sales were 400,000. \n" ); document.write( "105,000 / 400,000 = .2625 * 100 = ***** 26.3% ***** \n" ); document.write( "the numerator is the amount of sales smaller than seattle's. \n" ); document.write( "the denominator is the amount of seattle's sales.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "the difference between the seattle sales and the portlant sales is the same in questions a and b. \n" ); document.write( "what is different is whose sales are in the denominator. \n" ); document.write( "in a, you are being asked how much larger than portland's, so portland is in the denominator. \n" ); document.write( "in b, you are being asked how much smaller than seattle's, so seattle is in the denominator..\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "c. Portland sales were 73.8% of Seattle's.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "in this question, they are not looking for the difference in the sales between portland and seattle. \n" ); document.write( "they are looking for the total of portland's sales in comparison to the total of seattle's sales. \n" ); document.write( "portland's sales are in the numerator. \n" ); document.write( "seattle's sales are in the denominator. \n" ); document.write( "that would be 295,000 / 400,000 = .7375 * 100 = ***** 73.8% ***** of seattle's sales. \n" ); document.write( " |