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Use the Math Practices page in the Reference section to help you organize your work for the following problems. Explain your strategies and show your work.
- You have two biological parents, four biological grandparents, and eight great-grandparents. How many great-great-great-great-great-grandparents do you have? Show how you solved this problem. Write the number using an exponent.
- Suppose your pay for a job is one penny on the first day you work, two pennies on the second day, four pennies on the third day, eight pennies on the fourth day, etc.
- How much money will you earn on the tenth day?
- What is your total pay for the first ten days? (Give your answer in dollars and cents.)
- How long will you have to work to make a total of $1000?
- You won the lottery! The lottery committee has given you a choice: get paid a cool $1 million in cash or get paid 1 cent on the first day, two on the second, four on the third, and so on for 1 month (30 days). What is your choice? Explain why you made the choice you did.
