A flyer is spread by people at a large conference. Within one hour, the first person gives a stack of flyers to six people. Within the next hour, those six people give a stack of flyers to six new people. If this pattern continues, which summation can be used to calculate the number of people who receive a stack of flyers, not including the initial person, in the first five hours?

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Lorenzo Conner

Mathematics

6 August, 20:33

A flyer is spread by people at a large conference. Within one hour, the first person gives a stack of flyers to six people. Within the next hour, those six people give a stack of flyers to six new people. If this pattern continues, which summation can be used to calculate the number of people who receive a stack of flyers, not including the initial person, in the first five hours?

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Kiana · Answer 1

We are given five hours in this problem, since the first hour was used by the very first person, we can say that only 4 hours of this time was used by every 6 people. The equation is therefore,

n = (6) ^4 = 1296

Thus, the number of people who received stack of flyers is 1296.