Problema Solution

If there were 85.9 million voters whereas in the next year there were 118.1 million voters. Find the percent change in the number of voters

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The problem statement is ambiguous and we assume the 'next year there were' is intended to be the 'previous year there were'. 

1-85.9/118.1

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0.272

So approximately a drop of 27.2% drop in the number of voters.