17. due to melting, an ice sculpture loses one-half its weight every hour. after 8 hours, it weights 5/16 of
a pound. how much did it weigh in the beginning?

Acertain population of bacteria demonstrates exponential growth doubles in size every 4 days. how long will it take the population to triple in size?

Find the volume of the solid obtained by rotating the region enclosed by the curves y=1x and y=7^-x about the x-axis. (use symbolic notation and fractions where needed.) volume =

At river bank, checking account customers earn 0.75% interest a month on their account balances, pay no service fees for writing checks, and pay a monthly $2.00 financial charge. calculate the income earned in one month on the checking account for a customer with an account balance of $1,000. a. $4.25 b. $5.50 c. $6.75 d. $7.25 checking account earnings at baker’s bank are expressed by the equation: i = -0.09x + 10.2. while the earnings at elite bank are modeled by: i = -0.02x + 7.5. in both cases, x is the number of checks written. at what number of checks will elite bank start generating more checking account income than baker's bank? a. 12 b. 25 c. 39 d. 42 emilio’s checking account had a balance of 728.32 at the beginning of the week. he wrote checks for the following amounts throughout the week: $99.48, $33.50, $18.23, and $72.05. he also deposited his paycheck in the amount of $1,109.90. what is his account balance at the end of the week? a. $1,192.35 b. $1,222.86 c. $1,540.52 d. $1,614.96