Ok if someone can help me understand I greatly appreciated. I want to know how this is the answer. I got it wrong in my exam. The teacher explained it to me but I still don't get it.
On July 5,in the area around center village,there was great excitement. Six different people reported the police that they had seen bigfoot,the large hairy creature sometimes seen but never captured. The next day the police received twice as many calls as the day before. After they got a total of more than 300 calls, the police took the phone off the hook!on what day did the police receive their 300 call?
Answer:(table with day/#of calls/total.
Day 1:6 calls / total 6
Day 2:12 calls /total 18
Day 3:24 calls /total 42
Day 4:48 calls /total 90
Day 5:96 calls/total 186
Day 6:192 calls/total 378
Huh? Surely you can see that on day 6 the 300th call came in.
To find out on which day the police received their 300th call, we need to examine the table provided.
If we look at the "total" column, we can see that on Day 5, the police received a total of 186 calls. On Day 6, the number of calls doubled to 192, but it did not reach 300.
To determine the day on which the police received their 300th call, we need to look for the first day where the total number of calls goes over 300.
As we can see, on Day 6, the total number of calls reached 378. This means that on Day 5, the police received 186 calls, and on Day 6, they received an additional 192 calls, bringing the total to 378.
Since the question asks for the day on which the police received their 300th call and 378 is larger than 300, we can conclude that the police received their 300th call on Day 5.
Therefore, the answer is Day 5.