You start an account with $500 and an interest rate of 6% compounded yearly. How

much is in the account after 3 years?

a) Exponential growth or decay:

b) Identify the initial amount:

c) Identify the growth/decay factor:

d) Write an exponential function to model the situation:

e) “Do” the problem:

Ian is in training for a national hot dog eating contest on the 4th of july. on his first day of training, he eats 4 hot dogs. each day, he plans to eat 110% of the number of hot dogs he ate the previous day. write an explicit formula that could be used to find the number of hot dogs ian will eat on any particular day.

Marquise has 200 meters of fencing to build a rectangular garden. the garden's area (in square meters) as a function of the garden's width w w (in meters) is modeled by: a ( w ) = − w 2 + 1 0 0 w a(w)=−w 2 +100w what side width will produce the maximum garden area? meters

4. a single woman uses an online cash flow calculator which reveals a cash flow of 203. what does this mean?