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Does y=-3x represent an exponential function

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Answer:

y = -3*x is a linear function

y = -3^x is an exponential function


User Tan Jinfu
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y=-3x, not exponential because it is not squared by x also if it was squared by x it would then be called exponential decay because the slope is negative.

User Travis Parks
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