OCR C2 2007 January — Question 9

Exam BoardOCR
ModuleC2 (Core Mathematics 2)
Year2007
SessionJanuary
TopicExponential Equations & Modelling

  1. Show that the amount of coal used on the fifth trip is 1.624 tonnes, correct to 4 significant figures.
  2. There are 39 tonnes of coal available. An engineer wishes to calculate \(N\), the total number of trips possible. Show that \(N\) satisfies the inequality $$1.02 ^ { N } \leqslant 1.52$$
  3. Hence, by using logarithms, find the greatest number of trips possible.