Question

The staff at a company went from 40 to 29 employees. What is the percent decrease in staff?

Answer 1

help piz

Answer 2

I'll help

Answer 3

Do 40 minus 29 and you get your answer

Answer 4

okay

Answer 5

Lemme know what you get

Answer 6

i got 11

Answer 7

It's 11% that's correct

Answer 8

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Answer 9

oh,no, it wouldn't be 11.

an easy way to do this:
so there was 40 employees at the start. This is 100 %. Now there are 29 employees so we have to figure what percent of employees is still there.

Answer 10

now, we solve.

since we know that 72.5% of the employees stayed, all you have to do is 100% minus the 72.5% that is still there and you will get your percent of decrease .