What is the approximate percent decrease when a fish count goes down from 850 to 500? The percent decrease is approximately 40%.
The percent decrease is approximately 70%.
The percent decrease is approximately 140%.
The percent decrease is approximately 240%..

Approximate decrease is 70%

Step-by-step explanation:

The percent decrease is the change over the new original / final value.  The change between the old and the new is 850 - 500, which is 350.  Thus the approximate percentage difference is

350

500

A quick way to turn anything with a denominator that starts with 5 and any number of zeros after it ... is to multiply both the top and bottom by 2.  That is, that turns the ratio above to:

700

1000

Since a percentage is a number of 100, not 1000, just divide everything by 10.  That means take away a zero from each number, which gives you a fraction of:

70

100

Thus, the result is 70/100, or 70%.

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Step-by-step explanation:

the clues that signal the reader should change tone are the punctuation marks, the grammatical signs. for example, the quotation marks at the beginning of something someone else said literally or the exclamation marks.

the tone of the first line of dialogue until "gettysburg" is a kind tone, a tone of advise. the narrator is trying to the other person in doing something he or she obviously is finding hard to do by giving a piece of advise and bringing up a memory of a successful similar case.

the clue that the reader understand how to read the word "bang" is the exclamation mark. it gives the word a surprise tone, a strong accent.

the best tone for reading the word "bang" is an exciting tone, a surprise one, even a loud one.

the words that should be read with a formal tone are the ones that give factual information. the sentence: mister lincoln couldn't think of anything to say at the gettysburg" gives information about an event and it needs to be read formally, also, when the narrator wants to transmit calmness, a formal and slow tone is needed, because people also transmit messages with the vibrations of our voices and tones.