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Question 30450: How do I find the correct way to solve the following problem?
It is estimated that the Earth is losing 4000 species of plants and animals every year. If S represents the number of species living last year, how many species are on Earth this year?

Answer by longjonsilver(2297)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
well?

if it looses 4000 a year and there were say 20,000 last year. How many this year? Answer is 16,000. How did i do that? So apply that to "variables" rather than numbers.

You try.

Jon.

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