He has come from the hole in the roof because the text states that he did not come from a door, a window, or a chimney, and that is the only answer that was left.

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A King in ancient times agreed to reward the inventor of chess with one grain of wheat on the first of the 64 squares of a chess

statuscvo [17]

Let's start by visualising this concept.

Number of grains on square:
1 2 4 8 16 ...

We can see that it starts to form a geometric sequence, with the common ratio being 2.

For the first question, we simply want the fifteenth term, so we just use the nth term geometric form:
$T_n = ar^{n - 1}$
$T_{15} = 2^{14} = 16384$

Thus, there are 16, 384 grains on the fifteenth square.

The second question begs the same process, only this time, it's a summation. Using our sum to n terms of geometric sequence, we get:
$S_n = \frac{a(r^{n} - 1)}{r - 1}$
$S_{15} = \frac{2^{15} - 1}{2 - 1}$
$S_{15} = 2^{15} - 1 = 32767$

Thus, there are 32, 767 total grains on the first 15 squares, and you should be able to work the rest from here.

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Steven is researching prices on living room sofas in order to determine what a typical sofa costs. Which statement correctly exp

Hatshy [7]

Answer:

the answer is c because it can be either greatly increased or decreased

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