Answer:
52
Step-by-step explanation:

(I replaced
with
since we are to find
.)
(By the order of operations, we take care of the exponents before whatever else we have here.)
(By the order of operations, we take care of the multiplication as we see if left to right.)
(By the order of operations, we perform addition/subtraction as we see it left to right.)
(This completes the simplification.)
We could have also put this in our calculator as:
4(4)^2 - 2(4) - 4
This would have returned 52.
Answer: 9
Step-by-step explanation:
Since the percent is decaying, you subtract 3.4 from 100, which gets you 96.6
200(0.966)^9 gets you 146.5 which is less than 150
Step-by-step explanation:
10=7-m
10-7=-m
3=-m
m=-3