Question

stainslaw is trying to grow a plant, and measures its growth everyday on the first day the plant is 0.5 tall on the fourth day the plant is 1.5 inches tall on the fifth day the plant is 1.7 inches tall on the eighth day 2 inches tall​

Answer 1

The function that associates the day of measurement with the plant's length can be written as a set of ordered pairs:

{(1, 0.5), (4, 1.5), (5, 1.7), (8, 2)}

Where the first number in each pair represents the day of measurement, and the second number represents the height of the plant on that day.