WILL GIVE BRAINLIEST ANSWER!! The price of Luke's car depreciates every six months. The value of the car, in dollars, tyears after it was purchased, is shown by the following expression.

31,000(0.83)2t
(the 2t is an exponent)

Which statement below best describes the coefficient, 31,000?

A. the price depreciation in a six-month period
B. the original price of the car C. the rate at which the car price is depreciating
D. the number of times the price of the car has depreciated from the original price

step-by-step explanation:

12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 7 hours.

4: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 3 hours.

this means that from 4: 00 p.m to 7: 00 p.m. this represents 3/7 of what was lost from 12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m.

after knowing this, after doing 11,600 - 6,800 = 4,800

4,800 represents 3/7 of what was lost for 7 hours.

we then divide 4,800 by 3 which gets 1,600.

because we know that 1,600 represents 1/7 of how much water was lost, we just have to multiply by 7, which gets 11,200.   after adding 11,200 to how much water was left at 7: 00 p.m. which was 6,800. 11,200 + 6,800 = 18,000

this means that the pool originally had 18,000 gallons in the pool.

you can also check your work by doing 18,000 - 4(1600), which becomes           1800 - 6400 which gets you 11,600.

the answer is a if my teacher taught me correct