Environmentalists have protested against the large volume of logging. The chairman of the forestry company calmed them down as follows: "99% of the trees in the forest are pines. Only pines will be cut, and after the logging, the percentage of pines will remain almost unchanged - pines will be $98\%$". What part of the forest is allocated for logging?
The number of "non-pines" remains constant, while the proportion of "non-pines" increased from one percent to two...

## Solution

We will call trees that are not pines oaks. Before the logging, oaks made up $1 \%$ of all trees, and after logging, they will make up $2 \%$. This means that the total number of trees will be reduced by half.

## Answer

Half.