Question

the number of cable tv systems recently decrease from 10875 to 10700 .find the percent decease

Answer 1

First subtract:

10875 - 10700 = 175

Now divide it to the original:

175 / 10875 = 0.016091954

Multiply by 100:

0.016091954 * 100 = 1.6091954

So about 1.6% decrease.