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Sorry And here's your smoke du jour Brought to you

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by swimming pools There's a small rundown public school we

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go to sometimes but it's kind of a dive splash

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the local pool love opens with a thousand members at

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the beginning of the summer The number of members m

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after tea months can be calculated with the equation and

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nichols a thousand times point nine five to the t

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kaur according to the equation which of the following statements

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is accurate and hear the potential answer all right are

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under increasing or decreasing that's they face Okay we'll splash

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What a clever name for a pool club was like

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water taken Anyway they must be doing something right because

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they got a thousand members to sign up right out

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of the gate Or you know right off the starting

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block now were given an equation that expresses how many

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members there are after a certain amount of time where

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t represents time and equals the number of months Right

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So it's team months all the answer choices look pretty

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similar So the only thing we need to do is

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figure out whether membership is going up or down and

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by what percentage Why they signed up or why they

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left is well none of our business So let's Plug

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in a one for tea and see what happens Well

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point nine five two the first power is just point

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nine five it doesn't change and once we multiply that

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by a thousand we get nine hundred fifty which is

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a decrease of fifty members Find out how much of

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a percent decrease that is We simply take fifty and

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divided by the thousand we started with and we get

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point Oh five or five percent sure appears to be

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option c to us But let's try plugging it in

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one more to make sure what's membership gonna look like

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after two months while we can plug into for tea

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Point nine five square in his point nine o two

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five which one multiplied by a thousand equals nine hundred

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two and a half that's forty seven and a half

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fewer members than there were the month before And each

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We're a little concerned about that half member How sharp

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are those diving boards Well if we take forty seven

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point five and we divide that by the number of

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members there were at the end of one month nine

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fifty We had point oh five or five percent once

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again so yeah option c definitely got it right We'll

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tell you who doesn't have it right This pool club

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Apparently we're not sure what they're doing to drive people

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away in such large numbers but it might have something

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to do with their idea to introduce marine life and 00:02:14.94 --> [endTime] do some of the pools

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