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Your solution, attempt at solution. 

 

If you are unable to attempt a solution, give a phrase-by-phrase interpretation of the problem along with a statement of what you do or do not understand about it.  This response should be given, based on the work you did in completing the assignment, before you look at the given solution.

 

 

004. `query 4

 

Question: `q query modeling project #2 #5. $200 init investment at 10%. What are the growth rate and growth factor for this function? How long does it take the principle to double? At what time does the principle first reach $300?

 


 

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 ** The growth rate is .10 and the growth factor is 1.10 so the amount function is $200 * 1.10^t.

 

This graph passes through the y axis at (0, 200), increases at an increasing rate and is asymptotic to the negative x axis.

 

For t=0, 1, 2 you get p(t) values $200, $220 and $242--you can already see that the rate is increasing since the increases are $20 and $22.

 

Note that you should know from precalculus the characteristics of the graphs of exponential, polynomial an power functions (give that a quick review if you don't--it will definitely pay off in this course).

 

$400 is double the initial $200. We need to find how long it takes to achieve this.

 

Using trial and error we find that $200 * 1.10^tDoub = $400 if tDoub is a little more than 7. So doubling takes a little more than 7 years. The actual time, accurate to 5 significant figures, is 7.2725 years. If you are using trial and error it will take several tries to attain this accuracy; 7.3 years is a reasonable approximation for trail and error.

 

To reach $300 from the original $200, using amount function $200 * 1.10^t, takes a little over 4.25 years (4.2541 years to 5 significant figures); again this can be found by trial and error.

 

The amount function reaches $600 in a little over 11.5 years (11.527 years), so to get from $300 to $600 takes about 11.5 years - 4.25 years = 7.25 years (actually 7.2725 years to 5 significant figures). **

 

 

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Question: `q At what time t is the principle equal to half its t = 20 value? What doubling time is associated with this result?

 


 

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 ** The t = 20 value is $200 * 1.1^20 = $1340, approx.

 

Half the t = 20 value is therefore $1340/2 = $670 approx..

 

By trial and error or, if you know them, other means we find that the value $670 is reached at t = 12.7, approx..

 

For example one student found that half of the 20 value is 1345.5/2=672.75, which occurs. between t = 12 and t = 13 (at t = 12 you get $627.69 and at t = 13 you get 690.45).ÿ At 12.75=674.20 so it would probably be about12.72.ÿ

 

This implies that the principle would double in the interval between t = 12.7 yr and t = 20 yr, which is a period of 20 yr - 12.7 yr = 7.3 yr.

 

This is consistent with the doubling time we originally obtained, and reinforces the idea that for an exponential function doubling time is the same no matter when we start or end. **

 

 

 

 

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Question: `q query #8. Sketch principle vs. time for the first four years with rates 10%, 20%, 30%, 40%


 

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 ** We find that for the first interest rate, 10%, we have amount = 1(1.10)^t. For the first 4 years the values at t=1,2,3,4 years are 1.10, 1.21, 1.33 and 1.46. By trial and error we find that it will take 7.27 years for the amount to double.

 

for the second interest rate, 20%, we have amount = 1(1.20)^t. For the first 4 years the values at t=1,2,3,4 years are 1.20, 1.44, 1.73 and 2.07. By trial and error we find that it will take 3.80 years for the amount to double.

 

Similar calculations tell us that for interest rate 30% we have $286 after 4 years and require 2.64 years to double, and for interest rate 40% we have $384 after 4 years and require 2.06 years to double.

 

The final 4-year amount increases by more and more with each 10% increase in interest rate.

 

The doubling time decreases, but by less and less with each 10% increase in interest rate. **

 

 

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Question: `q query #11. equation for doubling time

 


 

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 ** the basic equation says that the amount at clock time t, which is P0 * (1+r)^t, is double the original amount P0. The resulting equation is therefore

 

P0 * (1+r)^t = 2 P0.

 

Note that this simplifies to

 

(1 + r)^ t = 2,

 

and that this result depends only on the interest rate, not on the initial amount P0. **

 

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Question: `q Write the equation you would solve to determine the doubling time 'doublingTime, starting at t = 2, for a $5000 investment at 8%.

 


 

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 **dividing the equation $5000 * 1.08 ^ ( 2 + doubling time) = 2 * [$5000 * 1.08 ^2] by $5000 we get

 

1.08 ^ ( 2 + doubling time) = 2 * 1.08 ^2].

 

This can be written as

 

1.08^2 * 1.08^doublingtime = 2 * 1.08^2.

 

Dividing both sides by 1.08^2 we obtain

 

1.08^doublingtime = 2.

 

We can then use trial and error to find the doubling time that works. We get something like 9 years. **

 

STUDENT COMMENT

 

 I have growth factor ^ time = 2 instead of g.f.^doublingtime =2, I don't understand how the calculation in the solution above was done.

INSTRUCTOR RESPONSE

 

If P(t) is the principle at clock time t, then the principle at clock time t = 2 is P(2).

To double, starting at t = 2, the principle would have to become 2 * P(2).

The clock time at which the doubling occurs, starting at t = 2, can be expressed as 2 + doublingTime.

Thus the statement that the principle doubles, starting at t = 2, is interpreted as

This functional equation will apply for any function, whether exponential or not.

In terms of the exponential function of this problem the equation for the specified conditions becomes

For an exponential function the doubling time is constant, so if P(t) is an exponential function we have

for any starting time t. Your equation corresponds to starting time t = 0. Since the function is exponential your equation gives you the correct answer; had the function not been exponential your approach almost certainly wouldn't have worked.

 

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Question: `q Desribe how on your graph how you obtained an estimate of the doubling time.


 

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 **In this case you would find the double of the initial amount, $10000, on the vertical axis, then move straight over to the graph, then straight down to the horizontal axis.

 

The interval from t = 0 to the clock time found on the horizontal axis is the doubling time. **

 

 

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