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What is the percent change of 44 to 22?

Answer 1

Abigail Allen

See a solution process below:

The following formula can be used to determine the percentage change in a value between two times:

#p = (N - O)/O * 100#

Where:

#p# is the percent change - what we are solving for in this problem.

#N# is the New Value - 22 in this problem.

#O# is the Old Value - 44 in this problem.

Substituting and solving for #p# gives:

#p = (22 - 44)/44 * 100#

#p = -22/44 * 100#

#p = -2200/44#

#p = -50#

The difference of 50% between 44 and 22 is negative.

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Answer 2

Eli Assouline

The percent change from 44 to 22 is -50%.

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Answer from HIX Tutor

When evaluating a one-sided limit, you need to be careful when a quantity is approaching zero since its sign is different depending on which way it is approaching zero from. Let us look at some examples.