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Linear Systems & Matrices · Superchallenge problem

Two towns, A and B, together have 10001000 residents, and nobody enters or leaves the pair of towns. Each year 20%20\% of A's residents move to B and 30%30\% of B's residents move to A, all at once. At the start, all 10001000 live in A. Treating the populations as exact numbers (not rounded), after how many years does the population of A first drop below 601601?