In the year 2001, a person bought a new car for $15500. For each consecutive year after that, the value of the car depreciated by 5%. How much would the car be worth in the year 2005, to the nearest hundred dollars?

$12,000.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given that in the year 2001, a person bought a new car for $ 15500, and for each consecutive year after that, the value of the car depreciated by 5%, to determine how much would the car be worth in the year 2005, to the nearest hundred dollars, the following calculation must be performed:

100-5 = 95

15,500 x 0.95 x 0.95 x 0.95 x 0.95 x 0.95 = X

14.725 x 0.95 x 0.95 x 0.95 x 0.95 = X

13,988.75 x 0.95 x 0.95 x 0.95 = X

13,289.3125 x 0.95 x 0.95 = X

12,624.846875 x 0.95 = X

11.993.60453125 = X

Thus, to the nearest hundred dollars, the cost of the car after 5 years will be $ 12,000.

step-by-step explanation:

b and c

b: |12 – x| ≤ 0.25

step-by-step explanation:      

let x be the possible lengths in inches, of the ribbons jaime cut.

we have been given that jaime is cutting strips of ribbon for a project. he tries to cut each piece to be 12 inches long, but sometimes he cuts it too long or too short by as much as 0.25 inch.  

we can represent this information in an inequality as:

by the definition of absolute value function we will get,

upon combining our inequalities we will get,

therefore, the inequality   describes all the possible lengths (x), in inches, of the ribbons jaime cut.

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