Need help with questions 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, & 10

1. Chain Letters Suppose you receive a chain letter asking you to send $1 4. If you were going to start such a chain letter (don't, to the person at the top of the list of six names, then to add it's illegal), would you put your name at the top of your name to the bottom of the list, and finally to send the first 6 names or as number 5? the revised letter to six people. The promise is that when 5. Find the best quadratic, power, and exponential mod- the letters have been sent to each of the people above you els for the data in the table. Which of these function on the list, you will be at the top of the list and you will types gives the best model for the data? receive a large amount of money. To investigate whether 6. Use the exponential function found in part (5) to this is worth the dollar that you are asked to spend, create determine the amount of money the person who was the requested models and answer the following questions. at the bottom of the original list would receive if all 1. Suppose each of the six people on the original list people contacted sent the $1 and mailed the letter to sent six letters. How much money would the person 6 additional people. on the top of the list receive? 7. How many people will have to respond to the chain 2. Consider the person who is second on the original letter for the sixth person on the original list to list. How much money would this person receive? receive all the money that was promised? 3. Complete the partial table of amounts that will be 8. If you receive the letter in its tenth cycle, how many sent to the person on the top of the list during each other people have been contacted, along with you, assuming that everyone who receives the letter coop- "cycle" of the chain letter. erates with its suggestions? 9. Who remains in the United States for you to send Cycle Number Money Sent to Person your letter to, if no one sends a letter to someone who (after original six names) on Top of List ($) has already received it? 6 X 6 = 36 10. Why do you think the federal government has made N 6 X 36 = 216 it illegal to send chain letters in the U.S. mail? W 5