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    You have 12 hours to answer this question algebraicly with an explanation for 5 diamonds on the new server. The question is:

    You work for a design company and want to enlarge one of your designs
    for a new billboard sign. You can enlarge the design by 120% every time
    you run the program. The original design is 12 inches wide by 24 inches long.

    How many times will you have to run the program for the design to be at least 150 feet wide?
     
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    I hope you can read my writing :/ lmao.
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    image.jpg
     
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    It’s a 14 not 19
     
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    Not 14 either
     
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    Does it have to do with logarithms?
     
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    Maybe :)
     
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    Is it about 14? Or 13.85?
     
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    Nope
     
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    :/
     
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    Are you sure? Because those two ways are the only ways I know ;-;
     
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    Keep guessing m8
     
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    Eh ;-;
     
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    Am I using the right numbers?
     
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    The problem was given to you in inches but you want it in feet. Use 1 and 2 instead of 12 and 24. The image wouldn't load. Here is the imgur link. Imgur: The magic of the Internet

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    For what? And I can’t see your image.
     
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    That's weird. I converted it into an imgur link just now. It should work.
     
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    Yea I got it. But where did you get 1?
     
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