Answers:
- a) 15000 represents the starting amount
- b) The decay rate is 16%, which means the car loses 16% of its value each year.
- c) x is the number of years
- d) f(x) is the value of the car after x years have gone by
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Explanation:
We have the function f(x) = 15000(0.84)^x. If we plug in x = 0, then we get,
f(x) = 15000(0.84)^x
f(0) = 15000(0.84)^0
f(0) = 15000(1)
f(0) = 15000
In the third step, I used the idea that any nonzero value to the power of 0 is always 1. The rule is x^0 = 1 for any nonzero x.
So that's how we get the initial value of the car. The car started off at $15,000.
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The growth or decay rate depends entirely on the base of the exponential, which is 0.84; compare it to 1+r and we see that 1+r = 0.84 solves to r = -0.16 which converts to -16%. The negative indicates the value is going down each year. So we have 16% decay or the value is going down 16% per year.
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The value of x is the number of years. In the first section, x = 0 represented year 0 or the starting year. If x = 1, then one full year has passed by. For x = 2, we have two full years pass by, and so on.
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The value of f(x) is the value of the car after x years have gone by. We found that f(x) = 15000 when x = 0. In other words, at the start the car is worth $15,000. Plugging in other x values leads to other f(x) values. For example, if x = 2, then you should find that f(x) = 10584. This means the car is worth $10,584 after two years.
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If you multiply the original equation by 3 you get -45x+3y=54, which is the exact same as A, therefore they have infinite solutions.
Answer:
Step-by-step explanation:
The lion population in a certain reserve drops by 5\%5%5, percent every year. Currently, the population's size is 200200200.
Write a function that gives the lion population size,
Each year, the population drops to 95% of its previous value. (100 - 5)%
That is, the population is multiplied by 0.95 each year.
Repeated multiplication is signified by an exponent.
Here, that exponent is the number of years from today (t).
<h3>There fore, The population function can be written as ...</h3><h3 /><h3> P(t) = 200·0.95^t</h3><h3>
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