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SIGSays
10-05-2003, 01:16 PM
Math problem

In an attempt to discredit the President, a member of the opposite political party wishes to start a scandalous rumor about him.l He plans to tell people this rumor one week before the election day and wants the entire population of the United Sates (250,000,000 people) to know the rumor. He needs to figreu out how many people he needs to tell (and they each tell the same amount of people) so that everyone will have heard the rumor by the seventh day.

and just how you did it... lol

thanx
-=Squid=-
10-05-2003, 01:26 PM
Hey, I can do that for you...I gotta go to town for now, but if nobody answers it and stuff when I get back...I will do it.


Nick
Miscue
10-05-2003, 01:30 PM
Well... if you assume that this happens once per day...


Solve this: x^7 >= 250,000,000

I think this question is poorly worded...
SIGSays
10-05-2003, 01:40 PM
i thought it was poorly worded too.. and this thing was found in a 8th grade work book.. lol

and i was wondering what do the days have anything to do with it?
Restola
10-05-2003, 02:44 PM
You're learning to factor out exponents using logs in 8th grade?

Been a few years, but that's how you would solve Miscue's equation.