Homework Help: math - question

Posted by anonymous on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 10:04am.

In a television game show, there are five questions to answer. Each question is worth twice as much as the previous question. If the last question was worth $6400, what was the first question worth?
is the answer 400

math - question - Writeacher, Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 10:18am
Yes.

Working backwards:

5 - 6400
4 - 3200
3 - 1600
2 - 800
1 - 400

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