Tuesday, November 17, 2015

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.

Sunday, November 8, 2015

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?

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

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?