A leprechaun places a magic penny under a​ girl's pillow. The next night there are 2 magic pennies under her pillow. Each night the number of magic pennies doubles. How much money will the girl have after 17 ​nights?
How much money will the girl have after 17 ​nights?

Respuesta :


The girl will have 34 pennies

Answer:

65536

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given that a leprechaun places a magic penny under a​ girl's pillow.

The next night she has 2 magic pennies under the pillow which keep on doubling for the next nights.

We are to find the amount of money she will have after 17 nights.

The first night, there was 1 penny.

Second night 2 pennies and they started doubling so we can write it as:

2^16 = 65536

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