Question

A town uses positive numbers to track increases in population and negative numbers to track decreases in population. The population has decreased by 300300300 residents over the past 555 years. The same number of residents left each year. What was the change in the town's population each year?

Answer 1

-60 people

Explanation:

The change in population was -300 people.

The change in population was -300 people/5 yr or -60 people/yr.