Exploring Exponential Growth in Real-World Contexts

Exploring Exponential Growth in Real-World Contexts

Explore how an exponential function models growth over time and how its values relate to domain and range.


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Putting It All Together

Answer these open ended questions on your own or with others to form deeper math connections.

Open-ended question 1

A virus population can be modeled by . How would you describe the growth rate in casual language?

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Open-ended question 2

Another virus population can be modeled by . How would you describe the decay rate in casual language?

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Open-ended question 3

How would you change the previous functions if the initial virus population was 1000?

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