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Henry wants to buy a coat that has an original price of $125. During an upcoming sale, the price of the coat will be reduced by 4% each week. Henry plans to wait until the price of the coat is less than $100 and uses this inequality to determine w, the number of weeks that he needs to wait to buy the coat: 125(0.96)^w<100 How many weeks must Henry wait for the price of the coat to first fall below $100?

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Answer: The Answer is 6 weeks

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Because if you go into a calculator and do 125*0.96^ and do a random number after that it will start decreasing and you want to get the lowest number so he can get the coat as soon as he can and I got 6 because 125*0.96^6= 97.8

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