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2 years ago

A petri dish of bacteria grow continuously at a rate of 200% each day. If the petri dish began

Mathematics

1 answer:

Molodets [167]2 years ago

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Answer: 2430 bacteria.

Step-by-step explanation:

When we have a quantity A, and we have an increase of the X%, the new quantity can be written as:

A + (X%/100%)*A

In this case, we have A = 10 bacteria.

And X% = 200%.

Then if we start with 10 bacteria.

After one day, we will have:

10 bacteria + (200%/100%)*10 bacteria

= 10 bacteria + 2*10 bacteria = 3*10 bacteria.

After another day, we will have:

3*10 bacteria + (200%/100%)*(3*10 bacteria)

3*10 bacteria + 2*(3*10 bacteria)

3*(3*10 bacteria)

10 bacteria*(3)^2

We already can see the pattern here.

After t days, we will have:

10 bacteria*(3)^t.

This is the equation f(t) we wanted:

f(t) =10 bacteria*(3)^t

after 5 days, we will have:

f(5) = 10 bacteria*(3)^5 = 2430 bacteria.

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Answer: 364.7 pounds

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165 x 2.21 = 364.65

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3 years ago

12. The Opera is collecting monies in advance for ticket sales. The tickets cost $17.50 each.

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Answer:

The number of tickets they have sold in advance are summed up with the following equation and solution:

Equation: $\frac{6842.50}{17.50}$ [the final answer should be in dollars]

Solution: The Opera sold 391 tickets in advance.

Step-by-step explanation:

First: Review some background information:

Let's see what the problem gives us to answer it. I'll bold out the important parts:

The Opera is collecting monies in advance for ticket sales. The tickets cost $17.50 each. If they have collected $6842.50 already, then how many tickets have they sold in advance?

We know how much the tickets cost and how much money they have earned from selling tickets, we can find out how much tickets they have sold.

Second: Solve the problem:

We can solve this problem using many ways, but I'm just going to pick one. We will use proportions to answer this. Now thoughts might be going through your head like this: What is this guy saying? What in the world is proportions? Well hopefully you learn from this example (Please don't take offense if you <em>do</em> know how to do proportions).

First we set up two fractions. One ticket costs $17.50, so we will use it to set up our first fraction: $\frac{1}{17.50}$ . We don't know how many tickets all together cost $6842.50 so we will use the variable: x. Now, we can set up our second fraction. x tickets costs $6842.50 so our second fraction will be: $\frac{x}{6842.50}$ . Now we must use cross multiplication. We multiply the numerator of the first fraction times the denominator of the second fraction, and then we multiply the denominator o the first fraction times the numerator of the second fraction. That's what we would do usually. But now, since we have a variable, we must use cross multiplication to solve for this variable. So we multiply the the numerator of the first fraction times the denominator of the other fraction and then we divide that answer times the denominator of the first fraction (You don't have to set it up like this).So let's solve this question:

$\frac{1}{17.50}$ $\frac{x}{6842.50}$

1 x 17.50 = 17.50

6842.50 ÷ 17.50 = 391

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2 years ago

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3 years ago

Please solve with explanation (high points)

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Step-by-step explanation:

so, we have a large triangle made of the 2 cables as legs and the ground distance AB as baseline.

the tower is the height to the baseline of that large triangle.

let's call the top of the tower T.

and remember, the sum of all angles in a triangle is always 180°.

we know the angle A = 62°, and angle B = 72°.

assuming that AB is a truly horizontal line that means that the 2 legs (cables) have different lengths, the triangle is not isoceles, and the tower is not in the middle of the baseline.

so, the height (tower) splits the baseline into 2 parts. let's call them p and q.

p + q = 12 m

p = 12 - q

let's simply define that p is the part of the baseline on the A side, and q is the part of the baseline on the B side.

we have now 2 small right-angled triangles the large height (tower) splits the large triangle into.

one has the sides

AT, height (tower), p

angle A = 62°

angle T = 180 - 90 - 62 = 28°

the other has the sides

BT, height (tower), q

angle B = 72°

angle T = 180 - 90 - 72 = 18°

now remember the law of sine :

a/sin(A) = b/sin(B) = c/sin(C)

with the sides and the associated angles being opposite.

p/sin(28) = height/sin(62)

q/sin(18) = height/sin(72)

we know from above that

p = 12 - q

so,

(12 - q)/sin(28) = height/sin(62)

height = (12 - q)×sin(62)/sin(28)

q/sin(18) = height/sin(72)

height = q×sin(72)/sin(18)

and therefore, as height = height we get

(12 - q)×sin(62)/sin(28) = q×sin(72)/sin(18)

(12 - q)×sin(62)×sin(18) = q×sin(72)×sin(28)

12×sin(62)×sin(18) - q×sin(62)×sin(18) =

= q×sin(72)×sin(28)

12×sin(62)×sin(18) = q×sin(72)×sin(28) + q×sin(62)×sin(18) =

= q×(sin(72)×sin(28) + sin(62)×sin(18))

q = 12×sin(62)×sin(18) / (sin(72)×sin(28) + sin(62)×sin(18))

q = 4.551603755... m

p = 12 - q = 7.448396245... m

height = q×sin(72)/sin(18) = 14.00839594... m ≈ 14 m

the cell tower is about 14 m tall.

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1 year ago

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Answer:

Step-by-step explanation:

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