Too Much Homework
  • Mr. Newton assigned mathematics homework to his class for a new chapter. He told the students that on each day after the first day, they must do twice the number of problems that they had completed thus far in the chapter. If at the end of five days the students had completed one-third of the problems in the chapter, how long with it take them to do all of the assigned problems for the chapter?

Answer:    
  Please enter a numerical answer
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Contest problems and answers provided by:

David Rock
rock_david@colstate.edu
Columbus State University

Doug Brumbaugh
brumbad@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu
University of Central Florida