i need someone to walk me through solving this equation:
200x + 1,000 = 10(1.5^x)
medal and fan.(:

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i need someone to walk me through solving this equation: 
200x + 1,000 = 10(1.5^x) 
medal and fan.(:

anonymous · Answer

Is that 1.5 to the x power?

anonymous · Answer

yes

sweetburger · Answer

lol i plugged this into my calculator and it took about a min to solve for an x value

anonymous · Answer

haha

sweetburger · Answer

well first i know we might aswell divide everything by 10 to get rid of it

nnesha · Answer

first of all divide both sides by 10 so you can take ln both sides.......-....

anonymous · Answer

okay

anonymous · Answer

one second please

anonymous · Answer

okay i got it

anonymous · Answer

sorry it took so long, i had to deal with something else.

sweetburger · Answer

you can factor out a 20 on the right side of the equation

anonymous · Answer

i have 200x + 100 = 1(1.5^x)

anonymous · Answer

why am i putting  a twenty there?

sweetburger · Answer

ok so u didnt factor out the 10 from everything

anonymous · Answer

yes i divided 10 and 1000 by 10

sweetburger · Answer

should be 20x + 100 = 1.5^x

anonymous · Answer

wait what

sweetburger · Answer

divide everything by 10...

anonymous · Answer

i thought you only divide the sides that don't have x

anonymous · Answer

so 1000 and 10

sweetburger · Answer

what... u have confused me

sweetburger · Answer

just divide each value in the equation by 10 so 200/10 1000/10 and 10/10

sweetburger · Answer

200x/10 +1000/10 = 10/10(1.5^x) now solve that @grunge101

anonymous · Answer

i thought you weren't supposed to divide the numbers with x

sweetburger · Answer

why did u think that? remember that 200 in front of x is just a coefficient you still have to reduce it

anonymous · Answer

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