Or, if your money is earning a 5 percent interest rate, you'll double it in 14.4 years (72 divided by 5 equals 14.4). If your money is earning a measly 1 percent interest rate, it will take you—yep, you guessed it—a whopping 72 years to double it.

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3 years ago

What are these slopes?

Nookie1986 [14]

Answer:

4. $\frac{-5}{1}$ or -5 (It's a negative slope)

5. 0 (It's a horizontal line)

6. $\frac{2}{3}$

Formula: $\frac{rise}{run}$

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2 years ago

Mr. Ramsey just finished bathing his kids, and now he is draining the tub. The tub contains 32 gallons of water and is draining

KIM [24]

The answer would be 11 gallons.

The tub starts with 32 gallons. Every minute it loses 3 gallons.

So after 1 minute it has lost 3 gallons. For example:
32-3= 29 Meaning that after 1 minute the tub has 29 gallons left.

Now you have to remember that the tub is draining for 7 minutes. So it is losing 3 gallons 7 times, because it loses 3 gallons each minute and there are 7 minutes.

We can use multiplication to find how many gallons the tub loses after 7 minutes. This sign “X” basically means “groups of”. We have 7 groups of 3, or
7 X 3

This is the same as saying we have 3, 7 times. Written like this:

3+3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 = 21

So after 7 minutes the tub has lost 21 gallons.

Now we take the original number of gallons and take away what was lost:

32-21=11

So there are 11 gallons left after 7 minutes.

Please let me know if you need any further explanation. Hope this helped.

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3 years ago