Mr. Smith has an apple orchard. He hires his daughter, Lucy, to pick apples and offers her two payment options: Option A: $. per bushel of apples picked Option B: cent for picking one bushel, cents for picking two bushels, cents for picking three bushels, and so on, with the amount of money tripling for each additional bushel picked A. Write a function to model each option. B. How many bushels of apples does Lucy need to pick to make Option B better for her than Option A?

What is the compound interest in a three-year, $100,000 loan at a 10 percent annual interest rate a) 10.00 b) 21.00 c) 33.10 d) 46.41

Marco is studying a type of mold that grows at a fast rate. he created the function f(x) = 345(1.30)x to model the number of mold spores per week. what does the 1.30 represent? how many mold spores are there after 4 weeks? round your answer to the nearest whole number. 1.30 represents the number of mold spores marco had at the beginning of the study; 985 mold spores 1.30 represents the number of mold spores grown in a given week; 448 mold spores 1.30 represents the 30% rate of weekly growth; 345 mold spores 1.30 represents the 30% rate of weekly growth; 985 mold spores

The ratio of wooden bats to metal bats in the baseball coach’s bag is 2 to 1. if there are 20 wooden bats, how many metal bats are in the bag?