Mrs. Harris treated her 1st period with donuts for averaging the highest on the midterm exam. She bought 25 donuts, By the end of the period, there were 3 donuts remaining. What is the percent decrease? *

1. isolate the variable, in this case, d. subtract 35.5 on both sides of the equation.2. 52 subtracted by 35.5 is 16.53. therefore your answer would be d= 16.5this is the basics of pre algebra, isolating variable through adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, if you have any other questions to ask just comment!