Sue set up a lemonade stand and sold 10 glasses of lemonade in the first hour. Her sales increased at the rate of 20% per hour for the next n hours. Which function represents the total number of glasses she sold in the nth hour? If the price of 1 glass of lemonade is $0.50, how much money did she earn in the nth hour?

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Zachery

30 November, 19:13

Sue set up a lemonade stand and sold 10 glasses of lemonade in the first hour. Her sales increased at the rate of 20% per hour for the next n hours. Which function represents the total number of glasses she sold in the nth hour? If the price of 1 glass of lemonade is $0.50, how much money did she earn in the nth hour?

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Salma Buckley · Answer 1

The 20% increase will be 2 more glasses of lemonade. So therefore now being 12 glasses of lemonade will be multiplied by 9hrs with result of 108 glasses - this will be the total number of glasses sold

If one glass costs $0.50 then the total costs will be

108 glasses * $0.50

answering=$54.00