Verified Answer :

  1. To decrease by a percentage, you work it out as 1200-(.021200) or you could also think of it as 0.981200
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If you would like to know what is 1200 decreased by 2%, you can calculate this using the following steps:

2% of 1200 = 2% 1200 = 2/100 1200 = 24

1200 - 24 = 1176

The correct result would be 1176.