Pitting olives is offering you a starting salary of $65,000 with a 5% raise annually. Whole olive foods wants to offer you $68,000 with a 3% raise. Who will offer a higher salary after five years.

Pitting Olives will offer a higher salary after 5 years.

Step-by-step explanation:

Increase in salary will be an exponential process.

Every year salary with a yearly increase of r% will be given by expression,

A =

Here = Initial salary

t = duration in years

After 5 years salary offered by Pitting olives

=

=

= $82958.30

With the same formula, salary offered by Whole Olive foods will be

=

=

= $78830.64

Therefore, Pitting Olives will offer a higher salary after 5 years.

18a

step-by-step explanation:

simply because it is. it's the highest common factor

answer:   28.56 feet (approx)

step-by-step explanation:

since, triangle abc has measure of angle c equal to 55 degrees, measure of angle abc equal to 90 degrees, and length of bc equal to 20 feet.

we have to find out the measurement of segment ab.

therefore, tan 55° =

but bc = 20 feet.

⇒ tan 55 ° =  

⇒ ab = 20 × tan 55 °

⇒ ab = 20 × 1.42814800674

⇒ ab = 28.5629601348   ≈ 28.56 feet