Straight-Line Depreciation. A contractor buys a new truck for $38,000. The truck is purchased on January 1
and is expected to last 5 years, at the end of which
time its trade-in, or salvage, value will be $16,500.
If the company figures the decline or depreciation
in value to be the same each year, then the salvage
value V, after t years, is given by the linear function

V(t) = $38,000 – $4300t, for 0 < t < 5.
a) Find V(0), V(1), V(2), V(3), and V(5).
b) Find the domain and the range of this function.

In 2000, for a certain region, 27.1% of incoming college freshman characterized their political views as liberal, 23.1% as moderate, and 49.8% as conservative. for this year, a random sample of 400 incoming college freshman yielded the frequency distribution for political views shown below. a. determine the mode of the data. b. decide whether it would be appropriate to use either the mean or the median as a measure of center. explain your answer. political view frequency liberal 118 moderate 98 conservative 184 a. choose the correct answer below. select all that apply. a. the mode is moderate. b. the mode is liberal. c. the mode is conservative. d. there is no mode.