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Start by writing the system down, I will use
to represent 

Substitute the fact that
into the first equation to get,

Simplify into a quadratic form (
),

Now you can use Vieta's rule which states that any quadratic equation can be written in the following form,

which then must factor into

And the solutions will be
.
Clearly for small coefficients like ours
, this is very easy to figure out. To get 5 and 6 we simply say that
.
This fits the definition as
and
.
So as mentioned, solutions will equal to
but these are just x-values in the solution pairs of a form
.
To get y-values we must substitute 3 for x in the original equation and then also 2 for x in the original equation. Luckily we already know that substituting either of the two numbers yields a zero.
So the solution pairs are
and
.
Hope this helps :)
So what will it be a percentage of? it will be the percentage of the original recruits, of the original 150.
for this, we need to divide the number of recruits that left over all recruits, and multiply by 100%:

so the number of trainees decreased by 20 %