Money in a month!

[andrewwake58]

Hey guys,

I was in the boat with Alejandro the other day and I asked him a riddle and he didnt believe me when I told him the answer, so I will share it with you and see how many of you can get it, or even close!

Math Riddle:

On the first day I give you one cent, on the second day I give you two cents, and on the third day I give you four cents. Each day following I will continue to give you twice the amount that I gave you the day before. At the end of a 31 day month, how much money will you have?

I will post the answer in a day or two as I have worked it out and I believe that my numbers are fairly close, but who knows?? Yall can check my work later!

So what do you think? Is this a good way to get paid? Or not?

[TrevorAkers]

Int(2^x) 0<x<31 ----> ((2^x)/Ln(2)) 0<x<31 -----> 3.1E9

Matlab

Value=quad(2^x,0,31)

[Nick]

$21,474,836.47

[andrewwake58]

Trevor that is a bad answer, because only about 2 people in this club can understand it!

[andrewwake58]

0.01
0.02
0.04
0.08
0.16
0.32
0.64
1.28
2.56
5.12
10.24
20.48
48.96
97.92
195.84
391.68
783.36
1566.72
3133.44
6266.88
12533.76
25067.52
50135.04
100270.08
200540.16
401080.32
802160.64
1604321.28
3208642.56
6417285.12
12834570.24


Total 25669132.47

That is jsut over 2.5 million dollars