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Ian is in training for a national hot dog eating contest on the 4th of july. on his first day of training, he eats 4 hot dogs. each day, he plans to eat 110% of the number of hot dogs he ate the previous day. write an explicit formula that could be used to find the number of hot dogs ian will eat on any particular day.

The sides of a parallelogram are 24cm and 16cm. the distance between the 24cm sides is 8 cm. find the distance between the 16cm sides