Q. What is the result when the number 10 is decreased by 38% ? Round your answer to the nearest tenth.Answer:
Understand the problem: Understand the problem.We need to calculate the value of the number 10 after it has been decreased by 38%. This means we need to find 38% of 10 and then subtract that value from 10.
Calculate 38% of 10: Calculate 38% of 10.To find 38% of 10, we convert the percentage to a decimal by dividing by 100 and then multiply by 10.38% as a decimal is 10038=0.38.Now, multiply 0.38 by 10 to find 38% of 10.102
Decrease by calculated value: Decrease 10 by the value found in Step 2.Now we subtract the value found from 10 to find the decreased value.10−3.8=6.2
Round to nearest tenth: Round the answer to the nearest tenth.The value we found in Step 3 is already to the nearest tenth, so no further rounding is necessary.
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