Jim is assessing the popularity of his high school football team's website for the first 5 weeks after the season ends. the average number of visits on the website for 5 weeks is given in the table below. number of weeks avg. number of visits 0 48,000 1 24,000 2 12,000 3 6,000 4 3,000 5 1,500 the initial number of visits to the website was . the percent decrease from 4th week to 5th week was    __%. the minimum number of visits on the website in the first 5 weeks since jim began his assessment was

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There are three sentences in this problem that require us to fill in the blanks with the correct number. Let's start by filling in the first sentence.

SENTENCE #1

The initial number of visits to the website was _____.

Before we being placing numbers in the blank, I would like to make sure you know the meaning of the terms in this sentence that you may not understand. I'm talking about the word initial. The term initial means the first or beginning of something. So, to simplify, the sentence is basically asking us for the first number of visits to the football team's website. It does not directly state that it wants the first number of visits in the first day or the first hour or first five hours, so we'll just assume it wants the first number of visits in the week 0.

To find the number of visits in week 0 all we have to do is review the chart and locate week 0. The number of visits to the website on week 0 is 48,000. So, the sentence completed should look something like this...

The initial number of visits to the website was  48,000.

SENTENCE #2

The percent decrease from the  week to the  week was ____ %.

Before we fill in the blank, I want to make sure you understand how to calculate a percentage decrease. The first step is to work out the difference (or the decrease) between the two numbers you are comparing. To do that, you can write your equation that looks something like this...

    

Then we would have to divide the decrease by the original number and multiply that answer by 100. So your new equation would have to look something like this...

%  ÷   · 

***Note: If your answer ends up being a negative number, then this is a percentage increase.

So, now that we understand that let's move on the finding the percentage decrease in both the weeks.

The percentage decrease between both the weeks is 50%. So this means the new sentence should look something like this...

The percent decrease from week 4 to week 5 was  50%.

SENTENCE #3

The minimum number of visits on the website in the first 5 weeks since Jim began his assessment was _____ .

Solving this part of the sentence will be simple. All we have to do is take a look at the last week, which is week 5. This will give us the minimum number of visits to the football website.

So, your completed sentence should look something like this...

The minimum number of visits on the website in the first 5 weeks since Jim began his assessment was  1,500.

Hope this helps!

- Lindsey Frazier ♥