Question

A 5 inch tall bamboo shoot doubles in height every 3 days. If the equation y=ab exponent X,where x is the number of doubling periods, represents the height of the bamboo shoot, what are the values of a and b?

Answer 1

 "x = 2; a = 5; b = 3" A 5 inch tall bamboo shoot doubles in height every 3 days. If the equation y=ab^x, where x is the number of doubling periods, represents the height of the bamboo shoot.