how to find the percent of change.Round to the nearest tenth, If necessary. Then state whether the percent of change is an increase or decrease?

from 12 m to 18 m

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how to find the percent of change.Round to the nearest tenth, If necessary. Then state whether the percent of change is an increase or decrease?

from 12 m to 18 m

anonymous · Answer

To find the change is to subtract 12m from 18m

anonymous · Answer

To find the percentage change:
The answer you get divide it by the distance that you started out with then multiply that by 100 to put your answer in percentage.

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Can you try this and tell me what you get?

anonymous · Answer

sure

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Are you having problems?

anonymous · Answer

yes

anonymous · Answer

Subtract 12 from 18: 18-12 = 6m
Divide 6 by the distance you started with (12): 6/12
                                                                  =0.5(100) to put ans in %

anonymous · Answer

you should get 50%

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Now to determine if there was a decrease or increase. What distance did we start out with?

anonymous · Answer

Are you still there?

anonymous · Answer

ya sorry

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an decrease?

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What distance did we start out from?

anonymous · Answer

Answer:You started at 12m and ended up at 18m that means that the change is increasing. Number on the right hand side is bigger, thus increase.

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If you were given another question where the distance moved from 18m to 12m then that means decreasing. (number on the right is the smallest)

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Hope this helps you with understanding this topic.