document.write( "Question 109877: I am taking on-line college classes through Axia College University of Phoenix and we print off our syllabus for our classes so I do not have a ISBN #. A problem that I have is a word problem:
\n" ); document.write( "Science and Medicine; 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?\r
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If S is the number of species last year, and the Earth is losing 4,000 species a year, then this year the Earth will have $\"S-4000\"$ species. For instance, if S=10,000, then subtract 4,000 to get 6,000. So to generalize, let the number of species be S and subtract 4000 from S. \n" ); document.write( "

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