What is 2 minus 1 percent?

Here we will explain how to calculate the answer to: 2 minus 1 percent. To find the answer, we first calculate what 1 percent of 2 is, and then we deduct that amount from 2 to get the answer.

To get the 1 percent from any number such as 2, we multiply the number by 1 and then divide that answer by 100. Thus, to find 1 percent of 2, we do this:

(2 x 1)/100 = 0.02

Next, we simply subtract 0.02 from 2 like this:

2 - 0.02 = 1.98.

Therefore, as illustrated and calculated above, the answer to "What is 2 minus 1 percent?" is as follows:

1.98

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