Suppose that in college you were so good at math…especially algebra and exponential functions…that you graduated with honors and got a killer job with high pay. Remember, math skills are in high demand these days and

with math you can do anything. Well, anyway, you are travelling down a county road and a truck hauling

construction debris loses a board with a nail sticking straight up and you run over it…the board…not the truck.

Since you have such a high paying job due to your math skills you were able to afford a car that was good at math

also. The car’s tire pressure sensors immediately calculate the air loss in the punctured tire can be modeled by the

function P(t) = 32e^(-.2t) ( 32 times e to the negative point 2 times t ), where P(t) gives the tire’s air pressure in

pounds per square inch and t is time in minutes.

Being a highly informed citizen, in that you felt the respons