Question

How do you determine if a function is an exponential function?

Answer 1

How can you tell if a function is an exponential function? If your function can be written in the form y = a b x , where and are constants, a ≠ 0 , b > 0 , and b ≠ 1 , then it must be exponential. In quadratic equations, your functions were always to the 2nd power. In exponential functions, the exponent is a variable.