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By: Deanna Castano Ruchita Shah Naiyu Wang Advisor: Abderrazak Belkharraz Precalculus.1641 LaGuardia Community College City University of New York Fall I 2007 Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………..3 Case Study 1……………………………………………………….4 Case Study 2………………………………………………………7 Case Study 3……………………………………………………….9 Conclusion……………………………………………….………..13 Appendix……………………………………………….…………14 Acknowledgments………………………………...………………15 Reference………………………………………………………….16 Introduction The purpose of this project is to understand the exponential growth and decay, which contains data analysis and curve fitting. There are three different cases in this project, the first one mainly deals with the depreciation of the car, the second case mainly deals with the percent of all drivers by age that have been stop by the police, and the last case is mainly about when high tides and low tides have occurred. From these three cases, we can learn how exponential function applies to the three different situations. All the projects are solved by using graphing utility, and from that, it helps us to understand and handle the different situations by using the same principle function.  Case study #1 Depreciation of New Car The purpose of this paper is to find the depreciation rate for the car we like. And we have chosen 2008 Lexus LS 600h luxury sedan. Year Value T=0 104,000 T=1 72,186 T=2 62,808 T=3 53,924 T=4 45,533 T=5 37,636 Table1. Depreciation of Lexus in next five years. From the table1, we put data into excel, and we got a scatter diagram, which considers Years as the independent variable and Value as the dependent variable. ExpReg: A= 95163.614 B=-0.1890594 =-0.9862375 =0.9726645 Fi