A group of Environmental Science team travel 20 miles to a field to conduct measurements and observations, due to floating the government improvise a rod for them, now they travel 8% less than usual. Calculate the number of miles they are traveling now?

They now travel 18.4 miles

Explanation:

Given

Required

Determine the new distance covered

First, we need to determine the reduced distance

This is calculated as thus:

Convert % to decimal

Now, the new distance can be calculated;

Hence; they now travel 18.4 miles

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