The (Rivera , Patel ) family’s car had the greater initial resale value. During the first six years , the resale value of the rivera family’s car decreases at an average rate (slower than , equal to , or faster than ) the resale value of the patel family’s car.

Adecibel is a logarithmic unit that can be used to measure the intensity of a sound. the function y = 10logx gives the intensity of a sound in decibels, where x is the ratio of the intensity of the sound to a reference intensity. the reference intensity is generally set at the threshold of hearing. use the graphing utility to graph the decibel function.a whisper has a sound intensity of 30 decibels. use your graph to you complete the following statement. the sound intensity of a whisper is times the reference intensity.