SOLUTION: FLU EPIDEMIC HITS TEXAS TOWN! 30% increase in cases reported this week. Today there were 100 cases reported to begin the annual flu season. If this rate continued how many cases wo

Question 227715: FLU EPIDEMIC HITS TEXAS TOWN! 30% increase in cases reported this week. Today there were 100 cases reported to begin the annual flu season. If this rate continued how many cases would be reported 4 weeks from now?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If I read it right, in 4 weeks

In 4 weeks 286 cases will be reported
I get this by saying:
At end of 1st week:
cases =
At end of 2nd week:
cases =
cases =
cases =
And at end of 4th week:
cases =
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