A company's number of sales each year is half of what it was the year before. Suppose we wanted to look at the number of sales as a function of time. A graph of this function would be _____, becoming _____ over time.
A)decreasing; steeper
B)increasing; steeper
C)increasing; less steep
D)decreasing; less steep

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The number of sales is decreasing each year because it is half of the previous year's sales, and the graph would become less steep over time as the rate of decrease slows down (each year's sales are half of the previous year, which is a smaller absolute decrease as the numbers get smaller).

A Company's Number of Sales Each Year Is Half of What