Further AP/GP Help Required
Ok, so I have several questions on this topic area but am able to enter a number of answers for one question in particular yet achieve the same outcome (a score of 75%). This would suggest that the question I can enter several variations of answer for is incorrect, right?
Please tell me what or where I'm going wrong with this if you know as it's driving me crazy!
Question
The value of a machine which costs £35000 has a costs of repairs and maintenance of £2000 in the first year and increases by 10% per year.
After how many years will it be cheaper to buy a new machine than to pay for the repairs and maintenance up till then?
I have tried using the following answers:
31 years (2000 * 1.1^31 = £38388.68499)
30 (30.04 rounded to nearest whole number as 2000*1.1^30.04 = £35032.10693)
11 (using sum of geometric sequence S11 > £35000
As I said earlier all of these give me a 75% scoring for the questions. HELP! :(