Ashley spent half of her lunch money on a turkey sandwich. then she spent two-thirds of the money she had left on a bottle of juice and the rest of the money on a cookie. if the cookie cost $.75, how much lunch money did ashley have to start with?

$4.50

.75×3=2.25

2.25×2=4.50

The function to represent the increasing number of rabbits per yer is

Solution:

The number of rabbits released each year is 8.

During 0 year, there will be 8 rabbits;

During year 1, the number of rabbits will be (or)

Similarly, during the year 2, the number of rabbits will be or

So, according to the pattern we can conclude that the function would be  

where x is the number of years.

On year 4, the total number of rabbits will be = 128