SOLUTION: Jasmine's car was worth $11,000 at the beginning of 2000 and the value of the car decreased exponentially, decreasing by 20% each year. a. Write a function f that determines th

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Question 1124886: Jasmine's car was worth $11,000 at the beginning of 2000 and the value of the car decreased exponentially, decreasing by 20% each year.
a. Write a function f that determines the value of Jasmine's car (in dollars) in terms of the number of years t since the beginning of 2000.
b. How many years after the beginning of 2000 was Jasmine's car worth $6,000?
c. How many years after the beginning of 2000 was Jasmine's car worth $3,400?

Found 2 solutions by MathLover1, josmiceli:
Answer by MathLover1(20849)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

Jasmine's car was worth $ at the beginning of and the value of the car decreased exponentially, decreasing by % each year.


use depreciation formula:

where:
= future value
= current value
= depreciation per period
= number of periods
a. Write a function that determines the value of Jasmine's car (in dollars) in terms of the number of years since the beginning of .
since the beginning of to this year, there is

if car was worth $ at the beginning of , and the value decreasing by %= each year
this year is worth:



b. How many years after the beginning of was Jasmine's car worth $?






->little over and half years; so, it was in

c. How many years after the beginning of was Jasmine's car worth $?






->little over years and three months; so, it was in at beginning of

Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
(a)

(b)


Take the log base 10 of both sides

yrs
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(c)


Take log of both sides

yrs
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