SOLUTION: Susan purchased a painting in the year 2000 for $5000. Assuming an exponential rate of inflation of 3.5% per year, how much will the painting be worth 6 years later?

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Question 1115872: Susan purchased a painting in the year 2000 for $5000. Assuming an exponential rate of inflation of 3.5% per year, how much will the painting be worth 6 years later?

Answer by KMST(5328)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
(rounded)
Each year, the inflation-adjusted value would be
the value from the year before.
In math class, we worship the irrational number ,
so we like to express exponentials in terms of .
,
so we could say the value after years is
,
and after years it would be
.

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