The Price of Computer Technology Has Been Dropping Steadily for the Past

question 103

Essay

The price of computer technology has been dropping steadily for the past ten years.The price of a certain desktop PC has decreased by $650 per year during this time period.If this PC sold for $6770 ten years ago,what equation describes the cost C of the PC over the last ten years? Graph your equation on a graphing calculator.Can you predict the price of a desktop PC a few years into the future
with this model?

---

Definitions:

Portability

The ease with which software, data, or services can be transferred and utilized on different hardware platforms, operating systems, or software applications.

Reusability

In object-oriented analysis, the ability to reuse existing classes from one project for another project.

Inheritance

A feature of object-oriented programming languages where a class can derive properties and methods from another class.

Method

The process of how a program converts inputs into the correct outputs.