Michelle wants to determine the height of the flag pole outside of her school. She places a meter stick next to the flag pole an
d measures the shadow of the meter stick and the flag pole. If the meter stick has a shadow of 160 centimeters and the flag pole has a shadow of 36.8 meters, then how tall is the flag pole?
The function representing the price of the ring x years after 2000 is f(x) = (100 + 35)/100 *x + 590 = 135/100 *x + 590 = 1.35x + 590 i.e. f(x) = 1.35x + 590