document.write( "Question 559457: The Greek God Zeus ordered his blacksmith Hephaestus to create a perpetual water-making machine to fill Zeus' mighty chalice. The volume of Zeus' chalice was reported to hold about One hundred and fifty sextillion gallons (that is a fifteen followed by twenty-two zeros). If Hephaetus' machine pours out 2 gallon in the first minute and then doubles its output each minute, find in
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document.write( "which minute would this hypothetical machine pour out a single quantity of water that would be enough to fill Zeus' chalice with water?\r
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document.write( "i only get the I dont know how to set this problem up to solve as my logrithmic knowledge is minor\r
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Algebra.Com's Answer #363427 by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! \n" ); document.write( "x*log(2) = 22 + log(1.5) \n" ); document.write( ".301x = 22.1761) \n" ); document.write( "x = \n" ); document.write( "x = 73.67 minutes \n" ); document.write( ": \n" ); document.write( ": \n" ); document.write( "Check this on your calc: enter 2^73.67 results 1.50e22 \n" ); document.write( " |