Answer:
distribution
combine like terms/simplifying
subtraction
division
Answer:
a. decrease
b. recklessly
c. increase
Step-by-step explanation:
Suppose the large number of auto accidents in a small town results in new legislation that requires all citizens of the town to install new anti-lock brakes on their cars. These new brakes cut the time it takes a car to stop by 50%, allowing drivers to avoid collisions with other cars and pedestrians more easily. The new brakes <u>decrease</u> the probability that a vehicle will collide with another vehicle but also give drivers an incentive to drive more <u>recklessly</u> which could potentially <u>i</u><u>ncrease</u> the number of car accidents.
Because the new brakes cut the time it takes a car to stop by 50%, allowing drivers to avoid collision easily, drivers may become confident and drive recklessly which could potentially increase the number of car accidents
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Answer: Approximately 6.58 years old</h3>
The more accurate value is 6.57881347896059, which you can round however you need. I picked two decimal places.
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Explanation:
Let's pick a starting value of the car. It doesn't matter what the starting value, but it might help make the problem easier. Let's say A = 1000. Half of that is 1000/2 = 500.
So we want to find out how long it takes for the car's value to go from $1000 to $500 if it depreciates 10% per year.
The value of r is r = 0.10 as its the decimal form of 10%
t is the unknown number of years we want to solve for
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y = A(1 - r)^t
500 = 1000(1 - 0.1)^t
500 = 1000(0.9)^t
1000(0.9)^t = 500
0.9^t = 500/1000
0.9^t = 0.5
log( 0.9^t ) = log( 0.5 )
t*log( 0.9 ) = log( 0.5 )
t = log( 0.5 )/log( 0.9 )
t = 6.57881347896059
Note the use of logs to help us isolate the exponent.
