A newspaper started an online version of its paper 14 years ago. In a recent presentation to stockholders, the lead marketing ex
ecutive states that the revenues for online ads have more than doubled that of the revenues for printed ads since starting the online version of the paper. Use the graph below to justify the lead executive’s statement and to determine the approximate year that the two ad revenues were equal. Graph with x axis labeled years. Y axis labeled revenue in dollars. The line for printed ad revenue starts at 0, 3 and goes through the10, 2. The line for online ad revenue starts at 0, 0 zero and goes through the 10, 3.
The lead executive's statement says that because the company uses online ads, the revenues have more than doubled. This can be seen on the graph because the Online ad revenue increases while the Printed ad revenue decreases.
The approximate year that the two ad revenues were equal is halfway through the 7th year or at year 7.5
