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Fatima Cynara is an analyst at Amalgamated Artichokes
(AA). As with any company, AA has had some very good
times as well as some bad ones. Fatima does trending
analysis of the stock prices for AA, and she wants to deter-
mine the largest decline in stock prices over various time
spans. For example, if over a span of time the stock prices
were 19, 12, 13, 11, 20 and 14, then the largest decline
would be 8 between the first and fourth price. If the last
price had been 10 instead of 14, then the largest decline
would have been 10 between the last two prices.
Fatima has done some previous analyses and has found
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that the stock price over any period of time can be mod-
elled reasonably accurately with the following equation: