rite a program that prompts the user to enter:

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The population of town A is less than the population of town B. However, the population of town A is growing faster than the population of town B.
in C++ Write a program that prompts the user to enter:
The population of town A
The population of town B
The growth rate of town A
The growth rate of town B
The program outputs:
After how many years the population of town A will be greater than or equal to the population of town B
The populations of both the towns at that time.
(A sample input is: Population of town A = 5,000, growth rate of town A = 4%, population of town B = 8,000, and growth rate of town B = 2%.)

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Use a do-while loop within if statement

calculate the population of town A

        population of town A = population of town A + ( population of town A * (growth rate of A   / 100));

calculate population of town B

 population of town B = population of town B + ( population of town B * (growth rate of B   / 100));

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