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Determine whether the table represents an exponential growth tunction, an exponential decay function, or neither.

Determine whether the table represents an exponential growth tunction, an exponential-example-1

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Answer: neither

Explanation:

Looking at the table, we notice that as x increases, y also increases. This means we can eliminate the exponential decay function option because decay means to decrease or go down.

The biggest difference between a linear and exponential line is the pattern. Linear has an add/subtract pattern, while exponential has a multiply/divide pattern.

As I analyse the y row, I notice that the values are increasing by 9 each time.

10+9=19

19+9=28

28+9=37

and so on

Since the y is increasing by +9 each time, this is a linear pattern, not exponential growth decay.

Therefore, the answer is neither.

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