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A town uses positive numbers to track increases in population and negative numbers to track decreases in population.

The population has decreased by 30 residents over the past 5 years. The same number of residents left each year.
What was the change in the town's population each year?

User Arkana
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Answer:

6

Explanation:

30 ÷ 5 = 6

User Cmnardi
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Answer:

-60

Explanation:

you divide -300 by 5

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