Your brother tells you a secret. You see no harm in telling two friends. After this second "passing" of the secret, 4 people now know the secret (your brother, you and two friends). If
each of these friends now tells two new people, after the third "passing of the secret, eight
people will know. Write an equation to express the "passing" of the secret. If this pattern of
spreading the secret continues, how many people will know the secret after 10 such
"passings"?

After n passing, the total number of people knowing the secret .

After 10 passing, 1024 peoples know the secret.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given that each friend can pass the secret to 2 people.

On 1st pass:

Total number of people knowing the secret = 1+1=2

On 2nd pass:

Total number of people knowing the secret = 1+1+1x2=4

On 3rd pass:

Total number of people knowing the secret = 1+1+2+2x2=8

This can be written as

Or, , where .

So, for the pass:

Total number of people knowing the secret = .

As is the sum of geometric progression of n terms having the first term, , and the common radio .

So,

.

Hence, after n passing, the total number of people knowing the secret

After, 10 passing, put n=10.

Total number pf peoples know the secret

c. 27 units.

step-by-step explanation:

we are told that in circle a, ∠bae ≅ ∠dae.

we can see from our given diagram that in and ;

, as these are radii of our given circle.

therefore, by sas congruence postulate.

hence, side be will be equal to side de as corresponding parts of congruent triangles are congruent. so we can set an equation to find the value of x as:

now let us substitute x=17 in the expression for the length of be.

therefore, length of be will be 27 units and option c is the correct choice.

answer: 12,000

step-by-step explanation: first you ar e supposed to add. then multiply then subtract