Decreasing is the opposite of increasing. When you increase something, you have more of it; when you decrease something, you have less of it. For example: we want to increase the number of students who graduate from college. We want to decrease the number of students who drop out.
To decrease means to become less than before.
in math word problems it usually means subtract! Doctor Chuck aka mathdoc
Decreased means that something became smaller or of a lesser amount.
Decreasing as human induced Global Warming ravages the Earth.
they contribute to biological evolution by how they've affected the evolution rate by increasing it or decreasing it
Yes the amount of carbon is increasing .
Hydrogen and Helium, with the former decreasing and the latter increasing. Rigel is fusing H into He at a prodigious rate and in a million years or so will start to collapse as its fuel runs out.
Generally, it comes down to the basic laws of chemistry. As the temperature increases, particles become more 'excited' and move quicker, therefore increasing the rate of photosynthesis. The opposite happens when temperature decreased, the particles move slower and therefore decreasing the rate of photosynthesis.
Ramp voltage is a voltage that can be steadily increasing or decreasing.
its decreasing. women are having less babies every year and its fertiltiy rate is only 1.9
Standard form has nothing to do with increasing or decreasing.
no... the sign indicates whether the rate of change is increasing or decreasing. It is only negative if the rate is decreasing over time.
It is increasing. Nowadays 78% of the Mexican population is urban, and increasing by an annual rate of 1.2%.
Car insurance is increasing at a rate of 1.4% as of 2009.
The manatee population is dwindling at an alarming rate
The rate of change of velocity, either increasing or decreasing, is its acceleration or deceleration.
The rate of reported chlamydia is increasing, most likely due to increased screening of asymptomatic sexually active patients.
The slope of a linear function is also a measure of how fast the function is increasing or decreasing. The only difference is that the slope of a straight line remains the same throughout the domain of the line.
With a few exceptions, it remains relatively constant.
waxing is growing and waning is decreasing