Aboard is cut so that it’s length is changed from 8 feet to 6.5 feet. what is the percent of change in length?

-18.75%

Step-by-step explanation:

The formula you can use to find the percentage of change is:

Where is the final amount and is the initial amount and %C is the percentage of change.

In this problem we know that the initial length of the table is:

Then

The final length is:

Then

Note that there was a reduction in length, therefore the change will be negative.

Finally the percent of change in length is -18.75%

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