There were 80 boys and 95 girls on the middle school track team last year this year the number of boys increased by 15% well the number of girls decreased by 20% was there an overall increase or decrease in the number of students on the track team calculate the overall percent of change in the number of students on the track team

a. 1% increase
b.4% increase
c.17.7% increase
d.1% decrease
e.4% decrease
f.17.7% decrease

E. 4% decrease

Step-by-step explanation:

To find out if we had an increase or a decrease, we will first need to set out variables.

80 boys

95 girls

So last year we had a total of:

80 + 95 = 175 Track team members

This year we had an increase in the number of boys.

15% boys or 0.15

Now since it's an increase, we add 1 to 0.15.

Total number of boys = 80 x (1.15)

Total number of boys = 92

Then we had a decrease in the number of girls.

20% girls or 0.20

Now we take the number of girls and multiply them by 0.20 and subtract the amount we get to the number of girls initially.

Total number of girls = 95 - (95 x 0.20)

Total number of girls = 95 - 19

Total number of girls = 76

So all together we have:

92 boys + 76 girls = 168

Now let's get the difference of the number of members last year and this year.

175 - 168 = 7

So we have 7 less members from last year.

Now we find how many percent 7 members is of 175 members.

Now we divide 7 by 175.

7 / 175 = 0.04

Then we multiply 0.04 by 100 to get the percentage value.

0.04 x 100 = 4%

So since we know that we have less than the initial number of members, then it means that it is a decrease.

So we had a 4% decrease in the number of members.

median is the value separating the higher half of a data sample, a population or probablity distribution from the lower half.

step-by-step explanation:

say you have 3,8,7,3,1,9,8 order them from lowest to highest

if orderd it would be 1,3,3,7,8,8,9 now you take away from the lowest and the highest until you end up in the middle.

so you would remove the 1 and 9 leaving you with 5 digits remaining

when you've reached the middle that would be your answer so in this case the answer is 7

if there were two numbers left say 7 and 5 you'd and them together so 12 then divide by 2 witch would equal 6 so the answer would be 6

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