Question
a) What is the decay factor?
b) What is the percent decrease?
c) Estimate the number of black and white TV's sold in 1999.
Answer:
a. Decay factor = 0.85
b. Percent decrease = 15%
c. 19.363 million TVs were sold
Step-by-step explanation:
Given

Solving (a): The decay factor
An exponential function has the form

Where b is:

By comparison:

Solving (b): Percentage decrease:
Percentage decrease P is calculated as follows:

Substitute 0.85 for b


Convert to percentage


Solving (c): TVs sold in 1999
First, we need to determine the value of t for 1999
In 1997, t= 0
In 1998, t= 1
In 1999, t= 2
So, we substitute 2 for t in: 



If the shapes are similar, the correspondent sides are in proportion:

Let's plug the values and solve for x:

Multiply both sides by x to get

The only feasible solution, though, is
, because it wouldn't make sense to have negative lengths.
I think its b but im not sure
Answer:
C) commutative
Step-by-step explanation:
Example: a x b = b x a