Thread: Maths advice- equations

Hi. can someone please get me started on answering this question.
Elizabeth started with 30 tubs of yeast. At the end of each day, she used a small quantity of yeast to make two additional tubs of yeast, from each tub of yeast that she had. She then sold 50 tubs of yeast.This routine was repeated each day.

A: give the difference equation for generating the number of tubs of yeast at the start of each day.

B: list the number of tubs for the first four days.

C: find the number of tubs of yeast needed at the very start of this procedure so that the number of tubs at the start of each day remained constant.

Thanks in advance

Originally Posted by bubs

Hi. can someone please get me started on answering this question.
Elizabeth started with 30 tubs of yeast. At the end of each day, she used a small quantity of yeast to make two additional tubs of yeast, from each tub of yeast that she had. She then sold 50 tubs of yeast.This routine was repeated each day.

A: give the difference equation for generating the number of tubs of yeast at the start of each day.

B: list the number of tubs for the first four days.

C: find the number of tubs of yeast needed at the very start of this procedure so that the number of tubs at the start of each day remained constant.

Thanks in advance

Let be the number of tubs at the end of the th day, then:



CB

CB.

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Thanks again
Margie