The number of employees for a certain company has been decreasing each year by 6%. If the company currently has 720 employees and this rate continues, find the number of employees in 10 years.

There will be 387

Step-by-step explanation:

This question is an example of compound decrease.

To work this out you would first have to convert the percentage of 6 into a decimal. You can do this by dividing the percentage of 6 by 100, this gives you 0.06. This is because percentages are out of 100.

The next step is to minus 0.06 from 1, this gives you 0.94. This is because we are working out the percentage decrease.

Finally to work this out you would multiply the amount of 720 by 0.94 to the power of 10, this gives you 387.80. However there can not be a decimal of a person and so it becomes 387. This is because it is working out 6% and subtracting it and then working out 6% of that new amount. This repeats 10 times.

1) Divide 6 by 100.

2) Minus 0.06 from 1.

3) Multiply 720 by 0.94 to the power of 10.

4) Round down

387

-3

step-by-step explanation:

a drawing really does here:

so i draw the horizontal line y=2 and the vertical line x=-2 at this intersection i put b (this is where my right angle is going to be).   so point b is at (-2,2).   point a is 5 units long and is also on y=2 so this point has to be (3,2) or (-7,2) -doesn't matter i will go with (3,2).

now we know c is at (-2,y) we don't know the y yet bet we know that c is on x=-2.

we have the area of the triangle is .5bh=12.5

we know the base length is 5 (ab)

we have the height is (2-y) if you look at your

plug in

.5(5)(2-y)=12.5

solve for y to get the y-coordinate for c

2.5(2-y)=12.5

divide both sides by 2.5 giving:

2-y=5

now subtract 2 on both sides

-y=3

y=-3