Insurance companies and other organizations use actuarial tables to estimate the remaining life spans of their customers.

Muscles, a membership-only gym is hoping to open a new branch in a small city in pennsylvania that currently has no fitness centers. according to their research approximately 12,600 residents live within driving distance of the gym. muscles sends out surveys to a sample of 300 randomly selected residents in this area (all of who respond) and finds that 40 residents say they would visit a gym if one was located in their area. based on the past survey research, muscles estimates that approximately 30% of these respondents would actually join the gym if they opened one in the area. based on this information and the results of the sample survey, about how many residents should muscles expect to join its new branch? a) 134 b) 504 c) 1,680 d) 3,780

Jamie is hiking up a small mountain. he climbs up at a constant rate of 300 feet/hour until he reaches the peak at 1,500 feet. after that, he hikes down at the same rate to the base of the mountain. the equation that models jamie’s elevation, e, after t hours is e = . jamie’s elevation will be 600 feet after hours and after hours.

The rate of decay of a radioactive substance depends upon the amount present initially. the mass y (mg) of the radioactive substance cobalt-60 present in a sample at time t (years) is represented by the exponential equation y=50e −0.1315 t . answer the following questions in complete sentences. 1. how does the exponential equation above compare to the equation for simple interest that is compounded continuously? explain the similarities. 2. what is the initial amount of cobalt-60 in the sample? 2. how much cobalt-60 is left after 8.4 years? show your work. 3. what would be the y-intercept of the graph? what does it represent? 4. after how many years will the amount of cobalt-60 left be 6.25 mg? explain what happens to the cobalt-60 after 50 years? 5. discuss some “real-world” examples and uses of cobalt-60