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A student was given the following problem on percentage to solve: 'Find the percentage of decrease if the population of a city decreased from 28,000 to 26,500.' She wrote the following solution: Original population = 28,000; New population = 26,500 % decrease = 26,50028,000 × 100% = 94.6% Which of the following is most appropriate with respect to the response of the student?
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- 1The student has made a careless calculation mistake.
- 2The student understands the general concept of percentage but is not able to understand which quantity's percentage is to be found.✓
- 3The student has solved the question correctly but has used wrong symbols in the solution.
- 4The student does not know the concept of percentage at all.
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The student understands the general concept of percentage but is not able to understand which quantity's percentage is to be found.
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