Mathematics: Officer brimberry wrote 8 tickets for traffic violations last week, but only 5 tickets this week. what is the percent decrease? give your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent.

Officer brimberry wrote 8 tickets for traffic

peno211

12.03.2022

The percent decrease is $37.5\%$

Step-by-step explanation:

we know that

$8\ tickets$ ------> represent the $100\%$

by proportion

Find the percent decrease

$\frac{100}{8}\frac{\%}{tickets} =\frac{x}{(8-5)}\frac{\%}{tickets} \\ \\x=100*(8-5)/8\\ \\x=100*3/8\\ \\x=37.5\%$

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reannalovestodpdn8d2

09.12.2021

1/3

Step-by-step explanation:

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