- An advertising company designs a campaign (#1097)
An advertising company designs a campaign to introduce a new product to a metropolitan
area of population M = 3 millions. Let P = P(t) denote the number of people who become aware of
the product by time t. Suppose that P increases at a rate proportional to the number of
people still unaware of the product. The company determines that no one is aware of the
product at the beginning of the campaign and that 40% of the people were
aware of the product after 10 days of ...
exponents, exponential growth, number sense
- Country A has a growth rate of 4.7% per year (#3089)
Country A has a growth rate of 4.7% per year. The population is currently 5,681,000 and the land area of country A is 33,000,000,000 square yards. Assuming this growth rate continues and is ...
exponential growth, exponents
- If there are 45 rats in a New York (#1765)
If there are 45 rats in a New York deli and the number of rats doubles every 7 days how long will it take for the deli to have 100...
exponential functions, exponents, functions, exponential growth
- One computer industry expert reported (#1962)
One computer industry expert reported that there were about 600 million computers in use worldwide in 2001 and that the number was increasing at an annual rate of about 10%
exponential growth, exponents
- The 2000 population of Jacksonville, Florida (#433)
The 2000 population of Jacksonville, Florida was 736,000 and was increasing at the rate of 1.49% each year. At that ...
exponential growth, exponents, number sense
- You deposit $1500 in an account (#337)
You deposit $1500 in an account that pays 5% interest ...
exponential growth, exponents, number sense
