Question

A business woman buys a new computer for $3000 for each year that she uses it the value depreciates by $300 the equation y=-300x+3000 Gives the value Y of the computer after X years what does the X intercept mean in the situation?find the X intercept (ordered pair) after how many years with the value of the computer be $1500

Answer 1

The x intercept means the moment when the computer completely loses its value and becomes obsolete

x intercept is given by y = -300x + 3000 = 0, which implies x = 3000/300 = 10 years

For y = -300x + 3000 = 1500, we have x = 1500/300 = 5 years

Therefore, it takes 5 years for the computer value to drop a half and more 5 years to the computer became completely obsolete