Q. What is the result when the number 12 is decreased by 25% ?Answer:
Understand the problem: Understand the problem.We need to calculate the value of the number 12 after it has been decreased by 25%. This means we need to find 75% of 12, since decreasing a number by 25% is the same as keeping 75% of it.
Calculate 25% of 12: Calculate 25% of 12.To find 25% of 12, we can multiply 12 by 0.25 (since 25% is the same as 0.25 in decimal form).25% of 12 = 120
Subtract values to find result: Subtract the 25% value from the original number.Now we subtract the value we found in Step 2 from the original number 12 to find the decreased value.12−3=9
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