Carter has balance of -2,096.37 on his bank loan. he makes a payment and subtracts $500 of his debt. then he decides to make a monthly payment to subtract $250 of the debt each month. what is the least number of months that carter needs to make the monthly payment to pay off the original debt? explain your thinking

7 months

After Carter makes his $500 payment, the balance on the loan is -1596.37. We want to find the number of months (m) such that ...

... -1596.37 +250m ≥ 0

... m ≥ 1596.37/250 . . . . add 1596.37, divide by the coefficient of m

... m ≥ 6.4

The least number of months that is more than 6.4 is 7 months.

Comment on this answer

Carter's loan balance may also be affected by interest charged on the loan amount. We don't expect those charges to be so high as to require an additional month's payment.

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3   .08c = 7.50+.05c   250 pages

step-by-step explanation:

1.   sometimes

the theoretical probability of rolling a 1 is 1/6.   perhaps you got really lucky and never rolled a 1   in those 60 times.   your experimental probability is 0.   or perhaps you rolled a 1   20 times.   your experimental probability is 20/60 is 1/3.     it really just depends on how you rolled in that experiment.

2.   never

the probability of the event occurring is 1.   that is being 100 % sure it will happen.   that is the maximum amount of confidence we have.

3.   no customer card cost:   .08 times number of pages

customer card cost:   7.50 + .05 times number of pages

we want to find when it costs the same amount, so we will set these equal

let c = number of pages

.08c = 7.50+.05c

subtract .05c from each side

.08c-.05c = 7.5+.05c-.05c

.03c=7.5

divide each side by .03

.03c/.03 = 7.5/03

c =250  

the cost is the same at 250 pages