document.write( "Question 396677: A math teacher assigns one second of homework the first week of school, two seconds the second week, four seconds the third week, and so on. The student is aqsked whether she would agree to this weekly homework doubling for the duration of the 36-week school year. Homw much homework in hours would this plan require in week 36? \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "1 hr = 3600 sec or week 13 would be ~ 1hr of  homework
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document.write( "Let n represent the number of weeks
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document.write( "1,2,4,8,16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096...
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document.write( "a[n] = 2^(n – 1)
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document.write( "a[36] = 2^35 = 34,359,738,368 sec = 9,544,371.7689 hr\r
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