At the beginning of an environmental study, a forest covered an area of 1500 km². Since then, this area has decreased by 6.4% each year. Lett be the number of years since the start of the study. Let y be the area that the forest covers in km?
Write an exponential function showing the relationship between y and t.

Find the equation of the line that goes through the points (4, –1) and (2, –5). use slope formula,equation,to find the slope of a line that passes through the points. m = use slope-intercept form, y = mx + b, to find the y-intercept (b) of the line. b = write the equation in slope-intercept form, y = mx + b.

Aprisoner is trapped in a cell containing three doors. the first door leads to a tunnel that returns him to his cell after two days of travel. the second leads to a tunnel that returns him to his cell after three days of travel. the third door leads immediately to freedom. (a) assuming that the prisoner will always select doors 1, 2 and 3 with probabili- ties 0.5,0.3,0.2 (respectively), what is the expected number of days until he reaches freedom? (b) assuming that the prisoner is always equally likely to choose among those doors that he has not used, what is the expected number of days until he reaches freedom? (in this version, if the prisoner initially tries door 1, for example, then when he returns to the cell, he will now select only from doors 2 and 3.) (c) for parts (a) and (b), find the variance of the number of days until the prisoner reaches freedom. hint for part (b): define ni to be the number of additional days the prisoner spends after initially choosing door i and returning to his cell.

Sally deposited money into a savings account paying 4% simple interest per year. the first year, she earned $75 in interest. how much interest will she earn during the following year? show your work and explain your reasoning in the space provided below.