PLEASE help me neither of these 2 questions make any sense to me please help me

Dropping less than two inches per mile after emerging from the mountains, a river drains into the ocean. one day's discharge at its mouth, 5.6 trillion gallons, could supply all of country a's households for seven months. based on this statement, determine how much water an average household uses each month. assume that there are 100 million households in country a. country a uses approximately nothing gallons per household per month.

1) you deposit $2,500 in an account that earns 4% simple interest. how much do you earn in eight years?

Ian is in training for a national hot dog eating contest on the 4th of july. on his first day of training, he eats 4 hot dogs. each day, he plans to eat 110% of the number of hot dogs he ate the previous day. write an explicit formula that could be used to find the number of hot dogs ian will eat on any particular day.