Percent of Growth or Decay

Kathy plans to purchase a car that depreciates at a rate of 12% per year. The initial value of the car is $21,000. Use an exponential function to find the value of the car after 3 years.

Round your answer to 2 decimal places.

(a)  

During a certain period of time, about 70 northern sea otters had an annual growth of 18%. Use an exponential function to find the number of sea otters after 4 years.

Round to the nearest whole number.

(a)  

A population of fish starts at 8,000 and decreases by 6% per year. Use an exponential function to find the population of fish in 10 years.

Round to the nearest whole number.

(a)  

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Twenty years ago, Mr. Davis purchased his home for $160,000. Since then, the value of the home has increased about 5% per year. Use an exponential function to find the value of the home today.

Round to two decimal places (like money).

(a)  

• Initial amount

• Rate of growth or decay

• Time

• End amount

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A population of 1500 deer decreases by 1.5% per year. At the end of 10 years, there will be approximately 1290 deer in the population.
Which function can be used to determine the number of deer, y, in this population at the end of t years?

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There were 417 cell phones sold at an electronics store in January. Since then, cell phone sales at this store have increased at a rate of 3.75% per month. At this rate of growth, which function can be used to determine the monthly cell phone sales x months after January?

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An antibiotic is introduced into a colony of 12,000 bacteria during a laboratory experiment. The colony is decreasing by 14.9% per minute.

Which function can be used to model the number of bacteria in the colony after x minutes?

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CCSS.HSF.LE.A.2

A population of fish starts at 8,000 and increases by 6% per year.

What is the fish population in 10 years?

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CCSS.HSF-LE.A.1C

Daniel’s Print Shop purchased a new printer for $35,000. Each year it depreciates at a rate of 5%.

How much will the printer be worth in 8 years?

• $23,219.72

• $136.72

• $51,710.94

• $16,710.94

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