TWENTY POINTS!!! Baxter is thinking about buying a car for $18,500. The table below shows the projected value of two different c
ars for three years. Number of years 1 2 3 Car 1 (value in dollars) 17,390 16,346.60 15,365.80 Car 2 (value in dollars) 17,500 16,500 15,500 Part A: What type of function, linear or exponential, can be used to describe the value of each of the cars after a fixed number of years? please explain your answer:)
explanation: The table for the value of the two cars with time are given as follows; Years Car 1 Car 2 1 18,500 18,500 2 17,390 17,500 3 16,500 16,346.6 Plotting the give data, we have; From the plot of the data, the function that can be used to describe the values of both cars after a fixed number of years is a linear function