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05/02/17

Determine the balance in this account on the child's 24th birthday.

On the day of a child's birth, a parent deposits $35,000 in a trust fund that pays 6% interest, compounded continuously. Determine the balance in this account on the child's 24th birthday. (Round... more
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05/02/17

How many bacteria will there be after 6 hours?

The number of bacteria in a culture is increasing according to the law of exponential growth. After 3 hours, there are 400 bacteria, and after 5 hours, there are 1600 bacteria. How many bacteria... more
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04/27/17

How much time will be needed for $25,000 to grow to $26,543.09 if deposited at 6% compouned quartely?

For calculating use the formula A=P(1+r/k)^kt  
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04/25/17

can you answer this question please?

A culture of bacteria originally numbers 250. after 3 hours there are 900 bacteria present. assuming exponential growth how long will it take until 10,000 bacteria are present?
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04/25/17

Can you answer this question with work please?

a substance has a half-life of 50 years if 300 kilograms are present initially how much will remain after 15 years?
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04/24/17

How much money will you have in 7 years if you invest $18,000 at a 5.6% annual rate of interest compounded quarterly

A=P(1+r/n)nt
College Algebra Word Problem

04/24/17

How much money will you have in 7 years if you invest %16,000 at a 6.3% annual rate of interest compounded quarterly?

A=P(1+r/n)nt
College Algebra Word Problem

04/23/17

for any amount of money invested at 3.8% annual interest compounded continuously, how long will it take to triple?

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College Algebra Word Problem

04/21/17

Elimination problem

Country Day's scholarship fund receives a gift of $ $143,680.43. The money is invested in stocks, bonds, and CDs. CDs pay 2.75 % interest, bonds pay 3.9 % interest, and stocks pay 11 % interest.... more
College Algebra Word Problem

04/20/17

Annual Interest Rate

An investment of $8,000 is made on April 19, 2012. Find the value of this investment at the end of April 19, 2017 in each of the following situations. Give your answers accurate to two decimal... more
College Algebra Word Problem

04/19/17

Find the intersection in the x ⁢ y-plane of the lines y equals negative 3 x plus 7 and y equals 10 x minus 4.

Find the intersection in the x ⁢ y-plane of the lines y equals negative 3 x plus 7 and y equals 10 x minus 4.
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04/17/17

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A flower bed is in the shape of a triangle with one side twice the length of the shortest side and the third side is 25 feet more than the length of the shortest side. Find the dimensions if the... more
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04/17/17

moving truck company comparison

You need to rent a moving truck for two days. Rider MovingTrucks charges $50 per day and $.50 per mile. UMove Trucks charges $45 per dayand $0.75 per mile. Write an equation describing each... more
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04/12/17

how many terms must be added in an arithmetic sequence whose 1st term is 78 and whose common difference is -4 to obtain a sum of 702?

how many terms must be added in an arithmetic sequence whose 1st term is 78 and whose common difference is -4 to obtain a sum of 702?
College Algebra Word Problem

04/11/17

The population of a city was 146 thousand in 1992. The exponential growth rate was 1.4% per year.

1. Find the exponential growth function in terms of t, where t is the number of years since 1992. 2. Predict the population in 2010, to the nearest thousand. 3. In what year will the population... more
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04/08/17

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Food and clothing are shipped to victims of a natural disaster. Each carton of food will feed 14 people, while each carton of clothing will help 6 people. Each 20-cubic-foot box of food weighs 40... more
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04/04/17

if petey gets a zero on the first it is worth 10 percent of his grade , what must peteys average grade be on everything else to get a B (83 percent) in class

if petey gets a zero on the first test of the spring semester and it is worth 10 percent of his grade , what must peteys average grade be on everything else to get a B (83 percent) in the class
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04/03/17

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During one game for the Phoenix Suns, Steve Nash scored 39 points on 17 field goals. How many of these field goals were 2-pointers and how many were 3-pointers?
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04/02/17

College Algebra word problem

An investment is worth $3197 in 1991. by 1996 it has grown to $4907. Let y be the value of the investment in the year x, where x =0 represents 1991. write a linear equation that models the value of... more
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03/31/17

A 53-in TV set has a screen with a height of 28 in. What is its width?

A 53-in. TV set has a screen with a height of 28 in. What is its width? 
College Algebra Word Problem

03/16/17

how do you set this problem up to solve it

 Julie works two part-time jobs for a total of 37 hours a week. Job A pays $6.20 per hour, and Job B pays $7.40 per hour hours a week. how many hours did she work at each job the week that she... more
College Algebra Word Problem

03/14/17

College algebra word problem

a person plans to invest a total of $3500 in a bank certificate at 3% interest and a small cap account at 16% interest. How much should he invest so that the total interest in one year will be $200?
College Algebra Word Problem

03/13/17

Solve the problem

The height h of a ball thrown is given by h(x) = 2x - 0.08x^2 where x is the horizontal distance traveled and both measurements are in feet.  At what horizon al distances will the height of the... more

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