Exponential Decay Project

Our project was exponential decay because it showed the decreasing population of Europe because of the Black Death and had a base of 0<b<1. The graph had an asymptote of 0 and stopped growing to the right.

Exponential Decay Example

The value of your car when you bought it was $21,000. If the value decreases by a factor of 6.2% every year, what will the value be in 8 years?

Exponential Growth

Rhode Island's population is currently around 1,000,055 people and increases by about 4.7% each year. What will the population be in 14 years?

America's Got Talent Extra Credit

Linear Programming Problem

You are starting a bakery. You want to sell sugar and chocolate chip cookies. For one batch of sugar cookies, it takes 2 cups of sugar and 3 cups of flour. For one batch of chocolate chip cookies, it takes 1 cup of sugar and 2 cups of flour. You have 18 cups of sugar and 21 cups of flour. You can make a profit of $5 per batch of sugar cookies and $7 per chocolate chip cookies. How many cookies should you sell to maximize profit?

First Post

My name is Olivia Dawson. I'm in J&C and I attended journalism camp at the Univeristy of Georgia this summer.