Your neighbor had to drop the selling price of her home from $180,000 to $165,000. What percent did the price get lowered? Round to nearest tenth

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Ciara Hutchinson

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13 October, 18:09

Your neighbor had to drop the selling price of her home from $180,000 to $165,000. What percent did the price get lowered? Round to nearest tenth

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Lorenzo · Answer 1

You could do 165,000 divided by 180,000. This is 165000/180000, and that will give you the percentage that 165000 is of 180000 in decimal form, which is 0.9167.

Then we round to the nearest tenth, which is 0.92

0.92 as a percentage is 92%.

100% - 92% = 8%

The price of the home dropped by 8%.