Last years phone model had a battery that lasted 15 hours. This year the battery only last for 7.5 hours. What was the percent the
battery life decreased?

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Answer:

Hello!

Judging by the question you provided I have come up with the correct solution:

Battery life decreased 50%

Step-by-step explanation:

To solve this problem I used a simple formula to figure out the rate at which the battery life decreased.

This foruma being:

[tex]\frac{7.5-hours}{15-hours}[/tex]=??

Which if you do the formula you should come up with:

[tex]\frac{7.5-hours}{15-hours}[/tex]=0.50, which if converted into a percentage would be:

50%