document.write( "Question 260271: Henry invested $12,000 in a new restrauant. When the restaurant was sold two years later, he recieved $27,000.Find his average annual return by solving the equatin 12,000(1+r)^2=27,000. \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "The key to finding the answer is getting r all alone in this: 12,000(1+r)^2=27,000
\n" ); document.write( "This can be rewritten as:
\n" ); document.write( "12,000(r^2+2r+1)=27,000 and rewritten again as:
\n" ); document.write( "12,000r^2+24,000r+12,000=27,000 Now let's subtract 27,000 from both sides to give us:
\n" ); document.write( "12,000r^2+24,000r-15,000=0 Now take out 3000 to be:
\n" ); document.write( "3000(4r^2+8r-5)=0 Now use the quadratic formula to solve x:
\n" ); document.write( "{{r = (-b +- sqrt( b^2-4*a*c ))/(2*a) }} Plugging in the values we get:
\n" ); document.write( "{{r = (-8 +- sqrt( 8^2+80))/(8) }}This works out to .5 the other value is negative so we have:
\n" ); document.write( "rate = .5 or 50% Good return for that investment!
\n" ); document.write( "This can be checked by plugging the answer into the original equation.
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