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36 students sign up for Modern Dance but 3 have dropped each week. Is this linear or exponential? Select the equation.

36 students sign up for Modern Dance but 3 have dropped each week. Is this linear-example-1
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The relation is linear as 3 students are lost and this quantity is constant (per week).

As it is a loss, then the equation would be:


f(x)=36-3x

...where x is the time in weeks and f (x) the rest of the students.

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