In 2000, the median home price in a certain city was about $260 comma 000, and from 2000 to 2006, home prices in this city rose at an average rate of about 11.8% per year. if prices had continued to rise at that rate, what would the median home price have been in 2018? compare to the actual median price of about $400,000 in 2018.
the median home price would be approximately $
nothing million in 2018.

No i refuse to tell you the answer but the estimate is 10

Ok here we go ..there are plenty of ways to solve such math problems but we will go for the smartest and easiest ..5x+2y=7  -2x+6y=9we rearrange them into the following ..by multiplying the 1st equation by 2 it becomes 10x + 4y = 14we rearrange it and so it becomes 10x = 14 - 4yas for the second equation we multiply it by 5 and rearrange it so it becomes as to the following ..-10x + 30y = 45rearranging so 10x = 30y -45now 10x equals both 14 - 4y and 30y -45so   14 - 4y = 30y -4531 = 26yy= 31/26 = 1.19 or around 1.2so by now we can calculate x easily as  -2x+6y=9so 2x = 6y -9 = 6 * 31/26 - 9 = -1.84  then x = - 0.92 or around -0.9best luck!