Rico’s backpack weighed 3.6 pounds. Then he added his school books which weighed an additional 24.76 pounds. How much did Rico’s
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Answer:
It will take 55 years for the account value to reach 38200 dollars
Step-by-step explanation:
This is a simple interest problem.
The simple interest formula is given by:
In which E are the earnings, P is the principal(the initial amount of money), I is the interest rate(yearly, as a decimal) and t is the time.
After t years, the total amount of money is:
.
In this problem, we ahve that:
So
First we find how much we have to earn in interest.
.
How much time to earn this interest?
Rounding up
It will take 55 years for the account value to reach 38200 dollars
Answer:
a) 21
Step-by-step explanation:
If the columns are labeled a, b, c, d left to right, it appears that we have ...
The value of M is 21.
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Questions like this require that you try different combinations of operations on the numbers shown to see if you can find a relationship. Here, the left column is a perfect square, so that is a clue. The difference of the numbers in the middle columns is a factor of the number in the right column -- another clue. It takes a certain amount of creative thought and familiarity with arithmetic facts. There is no "step-by-step" for a problem like this.