Three friends just out of culinary school have applied for a loan to open a new restaurant in the heart of New York City. The ba
nk gives them a loan in the amount of 1.3 million dollars. The three friends estimate that their business will be able to make a profit of approximately $0.7 million per year. They keep track of their debts, profits, and overall financial status on a balance sheet. They enter the debt as a negative value and all profits as positive values. Define a unit for the amount of time since the company began. Enter a variable for the amount of time since the company began and use this variable to write an expression for the expected financial status. 1. What was the financial status of the company when it began? 2. If the estimates were correct, how many years was it before the financial status of the company was 14.8 million dollars?
