Question

The population of a country increased by an average of 2% per year from 2000 to 2003. If the population of this country was 2 000 000 on December 31, 2003, then the population of this country on January 1, 2000, to the nearest thousand would have been​

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:

We need to decrease the current population by 6%

• Since 3 years have passed we will decrease it by

$2\times3=6$

• The working will be as follows:
• $\frac{6}{100} \times 2000000 = 120000$
• Now all we need to do now is subtract the both values and we get:

$2000000-120000=1880000$