Question

can anyone show me how to solve this ? company profit for last year was 299,000.This year profit was down by 2.4%. Find this years profit.

Answer 1

What is 2.4% of $299,000 ?

Answer 2

what's the answer

Answer 3

What is 2.4% of $299,000 ?

Answer 4

Jim I'm sure you mean well. But my answer and the answer to this question are different. 291,824.00 is the books answer. I continue to come up with a different answer.

Answer 5

this is just one step of the problem

Answer 6

2.4% of $299,000 = 0.024*299000 = ???

you then use this result to find the final answer

Answer 7

Wow ....... Really

Answer 8

what did you get?