What would be the equation for this?

A factory starts with 340 million items, and they make 1.7 million more on average every hour. Every 2 hours, they make 1% more than they did in the previous hours 2 hours before. Simple, I know a fraction and/or 0.01is in there somewhere _

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What would be the equation for this?

A factory starts with 340 million items, and they make 1.7 million more on average every hour.  Every 2 hours, they make 1% more than they did in the previous hours 2 hours before.  Simple, I know a fraction and/or 0.01is in there somewhere >_>

solomonzelman · Answer

"1.7 million more on average every hour."

Does that mean that the hourly production increases by 1.7 million every hour?

anonymous · Answer

Hourly production is not exactly 1.7 million per hour, so they would be error.  But, I'm just going to assume that 1.7 is the production rate for now - since I wouldn't know how to use an average.

solomonzelman · Answer

I am just struggling with the intepretation of the problem. It is written a bit abstruse for me.....

solomonzelman · Answer

So for my understanding of the case is that they had 340 million from start, and after every 2 hours the hourly production grows by 10%.

anonymous · Answer

*10% of the 1.7 million

anonymous · Answer

*sorry, 1%

solomonzelman · Answer

grows by by 1.7% i needed to say...

solomonzelman · Answer

but am I right?

anonymous · Answer

@SolomonZelman

anonymous · Answer

Items = 340000000+(1700000x)*(1.01(x/2))

anonymous · Answer

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