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Joe starts his experiment with 83 speciman the specimen double every week write an equation to represent this scenario

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Explanation:

Let S be the number of specimens and W be the number of weeks.

We know that initially Joe starts with 83 specimens, and every week the number of specimens doubles. Therefore, the equation that represents the scenario is:

S = 83 * 2^(W-1)

Here, (W-1) is used to account for the initial number of specimens already given in the problem.

This equation gives the number of specimens S after W weeks, taking into account the doubling of specimens every week.

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Let's use the variable "s" to represent the number of specimens and "w" to represent the number of weeks.

At the start of the experiment, Joe has 83 specimens, so we can set s = 83 when w = 0.

Since the number of specimens doubles every week, we can represent this with the exponential function:

s = 83 * 2^w

This equation gives the number of specimens "s" at any given week "w" in the experiment, starting with 83 specimens in the first week (w = 0) and doubling every subsequent week.



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