Question

A population of snails is tripling every week if the population started with 15 snails how many snails will there be after 14 weeks?

Answer 1

There is 57 snails after 14 weeks

Explanation:

Creating an equation:

tripling every week means 3x

NOTE: x is defined as the number of weeks

started with 15 snails means at day 0 (x = 0 also known as y intercept)

y = mx + b m is the slope, b is the y intercept

our equation: y = 3x + 15

after 14 weeks (x = 14):

y = 3(14) + 15

y = 42 + 15

y = 57