Due to ever-changing technology, a new xyz smartphone decreases in value 20% each year. 1. how much will this $1000 phone be worth in 2 years? 2. how long until it is worth less than 10% of it's original price?

1.  $640

2. About 10.3 years later

Step-by-step explanation:

This is a compound decay problem. The formula is

Where

F is the future amount

P is the initial amount

r is the rate of decrease (in decimal), and

t is the time in years

Question 1:

We want to find F after 2 years of a phone initially costing 1000. So,

P = 1000

r = 20% or 0.2

t = 2

plugging into the formula, we solve for F:

The phone is worth $640 after 2 years

Question 2:

We want to find when will the phone be worth 10% of original.

10% of 1000 is 0.1 * 1000 = 100

So, we want to figure this out for future value of 100, so F = 100

We know, P = 1000 r = 0.2 and t is unknown.

Let's plug in and solve for t (we need to use logarithms):

So, after 10.32 years, the phone would be worth less than 10% of original value.

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