Concept explainers
To find: number of students in the club.
Answer to Problem 13P
The number of students in the club is
Explanation of Solution
Given information:
Total cost for the calculator was
Formula:
The
Calculation:
Consider that the student in the club was
Total cost for the calculator was
Then the cost for
Since as mentioned above that if two more students have been added then the cost for each student have to contribute was
Therefore total students is
Each have to contribute
Therefore
Therefore
Therefore
Recall the quadratic equation
Therefore
Therefore total number of student in the club was
Here we reject
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