Q:

Your friend asks you to help him with his snow shoveling business and will pay you 3 pennies for the first job. You agree to help if he triples your payment for each job completed. After 2 shoveling jobs, you will receive 9 pennies, and after 3 shoveling jobs, you will receive 27 pennies.Complete and solve the equation that finds the number of pennies he will pay you after the seventh shoveling job. = number of pennies for seventh shoveling jobPayment for the seventh shoveling job = pennies

Accepted Solution

A:
Total = 3^x, where x is the number of jobs worked.Let x = 7th job:Total = 3^7 = 2187 pennies. = $21.87