Can you solve the following problems using a TI89"?
Suppose you buy a piece of office equipmet for $18000. After 4 years you sell I for a scrap value of $4000. The equiptment is depreciated linearly over 4 years. Te rate of depreciation of the piece of equipment is

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Can you solve the following problems using a TI89"?
Suppose you buy a piece of office equipmet for $18000. After 4 years you sell I for a scrap value of $4000. The equiptment is depreciated linearly over 4 years. Te rate of depreciation of the piece of equipment is

anonymous · Answer

if it is linear the answer is 
$$\frac{180000-40000}{4}$$ no need for a TI 89

anonymous · Answer

thing don't really depreciate linearly, but that is what you need to compute for this question

anonymous · Answer

In my professors lecture he wrote out y= mx+b: v=c-rt  does that have anything to do with my problem?

anonymous · Answer

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%2818000-4000%29%2F4 not really , it is the slope