EXPLANATION
Because the car's worth reduces by 27%, if x is the car's value in year 1, the car's value in year 2 will be 0.73x.
The value of the car in year 1 was $21,000
The value of the car in year 2 will be 21,000(0.73)
The same reasoning need to be applied with year three to obtain the following expression:
[tex]y=21000\left(0.73\right)^t[/tex]This is an exponential function where t represents the number of years.