Say a certain manufacturing industry has 63.1 thousand jobs in 2008, but is expected to decline at an average annual rate of 1.7 thousand jobs per year from 2008 to 2018. assuming this holds true, what will be this industry’s percent change from 2008 to 2018?

29.64%

Step-by-step explanation:

In 2008 the manafacturing industry had 63.1 thousand jobs and it declines on average 1.7 thousand jobs per year from 2008 to 2018 which is 11 years including 2008 and 2018.

Therefore the number of decline in jobs = 11×1.7 = 18.7 thousand jobs

The percentage change from 2008 to 2018 can be defined as:

% change = ((jobs in 2008-(jobs lost from 2008 to 2018)/jobs in 2008)) ×100

% change = ((63.1-(63.1-18.7))/63.1)×100 = 29.64%

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