Question

in the year 2006 there were 163,476 wildfires in a county. This was 12520 less than four times the number of wildfires in the year 2003. How many wildfires were there in 2003?

Answer 1

x= wildfires in 2003

163,476= 4x - 12,520

(163,476 + 12,520) / 4

x = 43,999 your answer is 43,999