Contest Winner 1 Suppose you just won a contest and are given the choice of 2 prizes: $100,000 in cash right now or the final result of doubling $1.00 every day for a 3-week period. Which one would you choose? Show all work and use complete sentences to explain the benefits of one choice over the other. Hint: Constructing a table might help in organizing your information.

A grant writer for school programming is putting together a four year plan to increase salaries and benefits. The plan is to increase the first year's numbers by 4% for second year; 2.5% for the third year and 2% for the 4th year. Year one the amount for salaries and benefits is $130,000. What would be the amounts for the 2nd, 3rd and 4th year.

One safe investment pays 10% per year, and a more risky investment pays 18% per year. A woman who has $139,200 to invest would like to have an income of $18,880 per year from her investments. How much should she invest at each rate? 10% $ 18% $ Need Help? Read It Master It

2. Write a program that models a cashier at a store. The program will take two numbers as input. Firstly, the cost of an item ($20.00 or less). Secondly, the amount of money given to the cashier ($20.00 or less). The program should output the change given in 10 dollar bills, 5 dollar bills, 1 dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, or pennies. You should output the highest denominations possible. For example, if the item costs $5.20 and the cashier is given $10 then the change should be   4 dollar bills 3 quarters 1 nickle