A bridge currenly has 975 vehicles traveling on it per hour during peak time. a traffic engineer estimates that there will be 3.4%more vehicles traveling on the bridge for two years. How many more cars will travel on the bridge per hours during peak time in 2 years than are traveling now? Round your final answer to the nearest whole vehicle.

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Gia Espinoza

Mathematics

27 January, 01:07

A bridge currenly has 975 vehicles traveling on it per hour during peak time. a traffic engineer estimates that there will be 3.4%more vehicles traveling on the bridge for two years. How many more cars will travel on the bridge per hours during peak time in 2 years than are traveling now? Round your final answer to the nearest whole vehicle.

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Ryann Elliott · Answer 1

To determine how many more cars will travel on the bridge during peak time in two years, you will find what 3.4% of 975 vehicles is for the first year.

Add this number to the 975, and then multiply 0.034 times the new number of vehicles.

Here is the math:

0.034 x 975 = 33.15

This round to 33 more vehicles.

975 + 33 = 1008

0.034 x 1008 = 34.272

There will be about 33 + 34 (67) more vehicles on the bridge in two years.