When the county fair opened its gates, 68 people entered the fairgrounds. after one hour, there were 1.5 times as many people on the fairgrounds as when the gates opened. after two hours, there were 1.5 times as many people on the fairgrounds as the previous hour. if this pattern continues, write the equation representing the number of people, y, at the fair x hours after the gates open.

Raj encoded a secret phrase using matrix multiplication. using a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, and so on, he multiplied the clear text code for each letter by the matrix to get a matrix that represents the encoded text. the matrix representing the encoded text is . what is the secret phrase? determine the location of spaces after you decode the text. yummy is the corn the tomato is red the corn is yummy red is the tomato