Esmerelda rents a car from a company that rents cars by the hour. she has to pay an initial fee of $52, and then they charge her $8 per hour. she has $144 available to spend on car rental. what is the greatest number of hours for which she can rent the car? (the car cannot be rented for part of an hour.)

11.5 hours

Step-by-step explanation:

the correct answer is b. negative exponential growth.

step-by-step explanation:

you can tell it's an exponential function because it decreases rapidly then levels out and never touches the x-axis.

it is negative because the y-axis decreases as the x-axis increases.

therefore it is a negative exponential growth graph.

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step-by-step explanation:

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