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Thank you for this. I was confused and did the following:

2000-2003 --> (5/4)*E
2003-2006 --> (5/4)*E*(2/3)

Then I set (5/4)*E*(2/3)=100
E=120

BUT, then I thought this was just the number of employees for 2006, so I ended up taking the 120 and dividing by 1.25 to presumably get back to 2000. Why don't you need to do this? Is it because there is only one E, and we just manipulated it this entire time? Thanks again.

Whenever you take a variable, think about what it stands for.
Here, E = No of employees in 2000.

Only then does the process:
2000-2003 --> (5/4)*E
2003-2006 --> (5/4)*E*(2/3)
makes sense.

Before taking a variable, think: Let E be ....
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I understand y --> 5/4y, but why can you do that when population is decreasing 1/4 multiple years?
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No need to plug-in numbers. Prefer fractions rather than decimals. Stop trying tricks and establish a pattern in basic math specially to arithmetic questions.
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I got confused by thinking that perhaps they are saying that every year between 2000 to 2006 increments happened. So I was doing the calculation that from 2000 to 2001 the addition happened, then from 2001 to 2002 the addition happened and so on. How did you guys know for a fact that only 3 years have to be taken into our calculations ie. 2000, 2003 and 2006?
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