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SAT Math: Which Equation Models a Company's Exponential Growth? 3 Views
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The number of employees in a rapidly growing business increases by a factor of four every three years. In the beginning, the business had 5 employees. Which of the following equations accurately models the number of employees after t years?
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- 00:03
Okay Shh Mash bumpers Another word problem coming at us
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The number of employees and a rapidly growing business increases
- 00:10
by a factor of four every three years That is
- 00:14
they go from like one hundred four hundred three years
- 00:17
In the beginning the business had five employees which of
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- 00:20
the following equations accurately models the number of employees after
- 00:24
t years All right so what we're looking at these
- 00:31
they got four times five two done five times for
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so we got to think through this little bit carefully
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for a company to grow this fast they'd have to
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be super successful smart and good looking We're not saying
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this mystery company is from up at all We're just
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saying that we're super successful smart and good looking Not
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really Well some people might say this company just has
- 00:51
lots and lots of luck but we can make an
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equation to predict their luck It's an algorithmic one that
- 00:57
revolves around search here That was a better hit for
- 01:00
the company we're talking about Well the equation for exponential
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growth will be helpful here in this equation A is
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the initial amount b is the growth factor per unit
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time that see years t and sees how much time
- 01:12
has passed or how many years has passed So if
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you didn't get this equation well a good luck it's
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could be a hard hard question to answer So f
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c equals a times quantity b to the sea on
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ly two answers have five in the right place Like
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where a is that a c and d right there
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The hard part is seeing what c should be Well
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it takes three years for the number of employees to
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grow four times larger than it was before so at
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t equals zero We should have the initial amount five
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employees then at t equals three We should have five
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times four twenty employees and then five times the quantity
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for square and that eighty like five times sixteen employees
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at equal six So using the fraction t over three
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for sea giving us fft equals five times quantity for
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two the third there So the answer is c and 00:02:05.557 --> [endTime] wow this pretty hard problem that we're done
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