Problema Solution
In the year 2006, there were 125,063 wildfires in a country. This was 14,875 less than three times the number of wildfires in the year2003. How many wildfires were there in 2003?
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Let 'x' represent the number of wildfires in the year 2003.
3x - 14,875 = 125,063
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x = 46,646 wildfires
There were 46,646 wildfires in 2003.