Hello I’m new here ! But I’m having trouble understanding how my teacher factored out the A from a-a(1.2^4)? And made it to A(1-1.2^4)? I attached a picture !

Thank you everyone :)

This is the distributive property:

ab + ac = a (b + c)

In this case, you have

a - a (1.2⁴)

and a is a common factor to both a and a (1.2)⁴, so you can pull it out as

a (1 - 1.2⁴)

answer: since the question is talking about growth you have to use the growth formula which is inital amount (1 + growth)^time

step-by-step explanation:

the intial amount is 1200, the growth is 4.8, and the time is 7. plug those numbers into the equation, also i think you have to change 4.8 into a percent. but, i have forgotton how to do that. if this is a online class go on to the lesson.