1. I have picked a scenario of buying a new car.

“You buy a new car that cost $25,000. The car depreciates at a rate of 11% per

year”[ CITATION Rob17 \l 1033 ].

2. A function in which the power is the variable, it is called the exponential function. An

equation to represent the exponential function of the scenario is:

y = 25000 (0.89) x

Where, y is the value of the x and the number of years since new purchase is x.

3. Table created to represent the exponential function:

X Y
0 25000
1 22250
2 19802.50
3 17624.23
4 15685.56
5 13960.15
a. It is decay because the numbers on the table are decreasing.

b. The decay represents an exponential function because it is always multiplying its

exponential and it is decreasing by 11%.

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5. I have used green color for the value of x which represents the number of years and I

have used pink color for the value of y which represents the cost (money).

6. Here, the number of years (time) is the independent variable.

Dependent variable is Money (cost).

Domain = x (all real numbers except negative numbers)

Range = y (y>0)

Starting point = 25000

Decay = 0.89