Game Show Winnings In a game show the incremental winnings are $100, $200, $300, $500, $1000, $2000, $4000, $8000, $16,000, $32,000, $64,000, $125,000, $250,000, $500,000, and$1,000,000.
Suppose a new television game show is established where the top prize is $1,000,000.However, the incremental winnings (listed in reverse order) are $500,000, $250,000,
$125,000, $62,500, $31,250, etc. Would the set of all numbers that are possible winnings be a set of whole numbers?
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