Question

TWENTY POINTS!!! Baxter is thinking about buying a car for $18,500. The table below shows the projected value of two different cars 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:)

Answer 1

Part A: Linear function

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

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