Question

Hadley had $25,000. He lost 30%. What does he have left?

Answer 1

first we have to find the 30% so we can use a rule of 3

$\begin{gathered} 25000\to100 \\ x\to30 \end{gathered}$

So the equation is:

$x=\frac{30\cdot25000}{100}=7500$