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Michelle has fifteen more than two times as many pieces of candy as her sister. Which expression represents the number of pieces

of candy that Michelle has if the variable c represents the number of pieces of candy that her sister has?

2 answers:

kondaur [170]3 years ago

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Fifteen more means somewhere we’ll add 15. Two times as many as c = 2c. So,

2c + 15 = how much candy Michelle has
2c + 15 is the answer

Shtirlitz [24]3 years ago

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Answer:

b

Step-by-step explanation:

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a) We have the population in the year 2000, which is 200 000 people. Let us write $P_0 = 200 000$ . For the population in 2001 we will use $P_1$ , for the population in 2002 we will use $P_2$ , and so on.

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$P_n = \left(\frac{109}{100}\right)^2P_{n-2}$ .

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$P_n = \left(\frac{109}{100}\right)^3P_{n-3}$ .

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$P_n = \left(\frac{109}{100}\right)^nP_{0}$ .

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$P_{0}$ for 2000, $P_{1}$ for 2001, $P_{2}$ for 2002, and so on. Then, 2016 is $P_{16}$ . So, in order to obtain the approximate population of Tacoma in 2016 is

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$n\ln(1.09)>\ln 2$ .

So, $n>\frac{\ln 2}{\ln(1.09)} = 8.04323172693$ .

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