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Mark bought a brand new car for $35,000 in 2008. If the car depreciates in value approximately 8% each year, write an exponential function to model the situation. Then, find the value of the car in 2015. Is this considered growth or decay?

Among the most famous of all meteor showers are the perseids, which occur each year in early august. in some areas the frequency of visible perseids can be as high as 40 per hour. given that such sightings are poisson events, calculate the probability that an observer who has just seen a meteor will have to wait at least five minutes before seeing another.