Answer:
I believe the answer is c.) x=4
Step-by-step explanation:
I saw this on a webpage:
The moment we see “x,” we can consider picking numbers. The key here is contemplating how complicated the number should be. Swim with the current – let the question tell you. A quick look at the answer choices reveals that x could be something simple. Ultimately, we’re just dividing this value by 2, 3, 4, 5, or 6.
Keeping this in mind, let’s think about the first line of the question. If there are 3 times as many adults as children, and we’re keeping things simple, we can say that there are 3 adults and 1 child, for a total of 4 people. So, x = 4.
Now, we know that among our 3 adults, there are twice as many women as men. So let’s say there are 2 women and 1 man. Easy enough. In sum, we have 2 women, 1 man, and 1 child at this picnic, and a total of 4 people. The question is how many men are there? There’s just 1! So now we plug x = 4 into the answers and keep going until we find x = 1. Clearly x/4 will work, so C is our answer. The key was to let the question dictate our approach rather than trying to impose an approach on the question.
Before we start answering the question, let's define the compound interest formula:
Where:
<span>'A'</span> is the amount of money in dollars
'P' is the principal amount of money in dollars
'r' is the interest rate (decimal)
'n' is the number of times interest is compounded per year
't' is the time in years
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(A) Find Principal Amount</span><u /><span><u>Given:</u>
</span>A = 12,000
P = ?
r = 0.08
n = 2 (semiannually)
t = 5
Now we plug our values in and solve:



∴ You would have to deposit $8106.77 in order to have $12,000 in 5 years from now.
(B) Find Principal AmountSame given values as above, with the exception of 't' which is now 10 instead of 5.



∴ You would have to deposit $5476.64 in order to have $12,000 in 10 years from now.
Hope this helps!
X - 2 = -5
x = -5 + 2
x = -3
(x-2)^2 + 5x - 10...when x = -3
(-3-2)^2 + 5(-3) - 10
-5^2 - 15 - 10
25 - 15 - 10
10 - 10
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