Monitoring and maintaining the environment

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As part of a global environmental monitoring program, satellite imaging was used to track the shrinking surface area of an inland salt lake over several decades. The estimated surface areas are recorded below:

  • Year 1980: 1.4 million1.4\text{ million}1.4 million hectares
  • Year 2000: 560,000 560,000\,560,000 hectares
  • Year 2020: 160,000 160,000\,160,000 hectares

Calculate how many times larger the surface area of the salt lake was in 1980 compared to in 2020.

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