A rectangle has length 4 inches and width 2 inches. If the length and width of the rectangle are reduced by 50 percent, by what percent will the area of the rectangle be reduced?
40 percent
50 percent
60 percent
75 percent

Ahypothesis is: a the average squared deviations about the mean of a distribution of values b) an empirically testable statement that is an unproven supposition developed in order to explain phenomena a statement that asserts the status quo; that is, any change from what has been c) thought to be true is due to random sampling order da statement that is the opposite of the null hypothesis e) the error made by rejecting the null hypothesis when it is true