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 ? just need answer no explanation

a negative exponent is translated as follows:

so, we have

step-by-step explanation:

the multiplicative inverse of a fraction a/b is b/a. for the multiplicative inverse of a real number, divide 1 by the number. for example, the reciprocal of 5 is one fifth 1/5 or 0.2, and the reciprocal of 0.25 is 1 divided by 0.25, or 4.