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The following problems consider the historic average cost per gigabyte of RAM on a computer.
Year | 5-Year Change ($) |
1980 | 0 |
1985 | -5,468,750 |
1990 | -755,495 |
1995 | -73,005 |
2000 | -29768 |
2005 | -918 |
2010 | -177 |
460. The average cost per gigabyte of RAM can be approximated by the function
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