This month, south bay running company sold 228 pairs of its most popular running shoe, the levitate lite. the company predicts that sales of levitate lites will decline by about 15% each month due to the release of a highly anticipated new model, the cloud strider. write an exponential equation in the form y=a(b)ˣ that can model the predicted monthly sales of levitate lites, y, x months after the release of the cloud strider. use whole numbers, decimals, or simplified fractions for the values of a and b.
y =______