Let the number of cases solved in 2003 be
. This was 80% of the number of
cases, so there were 5x/4 cases to solve in 2003. So the number of cases to
solve in 2004 was
, which is
. Inspector Remorse solved
60% of the cases, which is 9x/10. So there was a 10% decrease in the number of
cases solved.