Billy takes out a $2,400 discounted loan using a simple interest rate of 8% for a period of 18 months. What is the effective interest rate? Give your answer as a percentage to the nearest tenth of a percent. Do not include the percent symbol in your answer.

(a) compute the maclaurin polynomial m2(x) for f(x) = cos x. (b) use the polynomial of part (a) to estimate cos π 12. (c) use a calculator to compute the error made using the estimate from part (b) for the value of cos π 12. remember that the error is defined to be the absolute value of the difference between the true value and the estimate.

Amerchant has coffee worth $60 a pound that she wishes to mix with 50 pounds of coffee worth $90 a pound to get a mixture that she will sell for $70 a pound. how many pounds of the & 60 coffee should be used?

Identify the graph of y = ln x + 1.