A large company put out an advertisement in a magazine for a job opening. The first day the magazine was published the company g
ot 50 responses, but the responses were declining by 10% each day. Assuming the pattern continued, how many total responses would the company get over the course of the first 12 days after the magazine was published, to the nearest whole number?
A geometric sequence, is a sequence of numbers where each term after the first is found by multiplying the previous one by a fixed, non-zero number called the common ratio.
First start off by multiplying $0.62 by 4 to find out the total she paid for all four pounds of beans. This would give you $2.48 spent on beans. Subtract $2.48 from the total amount spent ($8.63). You now have $6.15 left on what she could have spent on 5 pounds of potatoes. Do $6.15 divided by 5 to get an answer of $1.23. Hannah paid $1.23 per pound for the potatoes.
