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:
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?
Would I be correct in this answer; S/365 (the 365 representing number of days in a year)
Thank You for your help,
Barb Neely
Found 2 solutions by jim_thompson5910, MathLover1:
Answer by jim_thompson5910(35256)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! 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  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.
Answer by MathLover1(20849)  (Show Source):
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