Question

A town uses positive numbers to track increases in population and negative numbers to track decreases in population. The population has decreased by 300 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?

Answer 1

-60

Explanation:

Increase in population is given by positive sign

Change in population in 5 years = -300

Decrease in population is represented by negative sign

Change in population in 1 year = -300\5

= -60

Town's population faces a decrease of 60 residents each year.