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Hope plants a tree that is 3 feet tall. The tree is expected to grow at an average rate of 1.5 feet per year

Part 1: Create an equation that hope can use to find the number of years, x, it will take the tree to grow to a height of 15 feet

Part 2. How many years will it take the tree to grow to a height of 15 feet?

Please help ASAP

User Markoo
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15=3+1.5x and then this is how you solve it 15/1.5 which is 10 so in 10 years it will grow to 15 feet
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