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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.

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To decrease means to become less than before.

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in math word problems it usually means subtract! Doctor Chuck aka mathdoc

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Decreased means that something became smaller or of a lesser amount.

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