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Course: Get ready for Algebra 2?>?Unit 4
Lesson 6: Exponential vs. linear growth over timeExponential vs. linear growth over time
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Problem
Lucia and Maria are business women who decided to invest money by buying farm land in Brazil.
- Lucia bought
hectares of land in the first month, and each month afterwards she buys additional hectares. - Maria bought
hectares of land in the first month, and each month afterward her total number of hectares increases by a factor of .
They started their investments at the same time, and they both buy the additional land at the beginning of each month.
What is the first month in which Maria's amount of land exceeds Lucia's amount of land?