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    A continuously compounded rate of 18.4% is equivalent to what annual interest rate? a heliumfilled balloon is slowly deflating. During any 24hour period, it loses 7 percent of the helium it had at the beginning of that period. How much time is needed for the balloon to lose half its helium?

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    A continuously compounded rate of 18.4% is equivalent to what annual interest rate? a heliumfilled balloon is slowly deflating. During any 24hour period, it loses 7 percent of the helium it had at the beginning of that period. How much time is needed for the balloon to lose half its helium?

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    Exploration15DueThursday11/5

    1)Solveeachforx:

    10x = 14
    10x = 0.00389
    ex = 296.7

    2x = 64
    ex4 = 0.04819

    2)Usingyourcalculator,write1997asapowerof10.Usingyouranswer(butnocalculator),
    alsowrite19970asapowerof10.

    3)Acontinuouslycompoundedrateof18.4%(use A = P ert )isequivalenttowhatannual


    interestrate(use A = P (1 + n)t )?

    4)Insummarizingthegrowthofacertainpopulation,Baileywrites G(t) = 747t1.44 bymistake,


    insteadof G(t) = 747(1.44)t .Aretheretvaluesforwhichthetwofunctionsagreeinvalue?

    5)Aheliumfilledballoonisslowlydeflating.Duringany24hourperiod,itloses7percentofthe
    heliumithadatthebeginningofthatperiod.Howmuchtimeisneededfortheballoontolose
    halfitshelium?Thistimeiscalledthehalflife.Beasaccurateasyoucan.

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