Linear Growth vs. Exponential Growth Answers

The graphs of y = 4x and y = 4x are shown below. In general, how does the growth of y = 4x compare to the growth of y = 4x?

Barry’s Bagel Emporium sells a dozen bagels for $5.00. This price is no longer high enough to create a profit. The owner decides to raise the price. He does not want to alarm his customers with too large of an increase. He is considering four different plans.Plan A: Raise the price by $0.05 each week until the price reaches $8.00.Plan B: Raise the price by 10 percent each week until the price reaches $8.00.Plan C: Raise the price by the same amount each week for 6 weeks, so that in the sixth week the price is $8.00.Plan D: Raise the price by $0.25 each week until the price reaches $8.00.Which plan will result in the price of the bagels reaching $8.00 fastest?

Chen is given the graph below.What type of graph is shown, and what is the growth factor?

Mary creates a table of values for a function and plots the points. She finds that the difference in the y values is the same. What kind of function did she graph?

What is the missing number in the table?x12345y636216???7,776

Margo is given the graph below.What type of graph is shown, and what is the growth factor?

Which of the following best describes how the y values are changing over each interval?xy1428312416520

Which graph represents an exponential function?

Which table represents an exponential function?

The table below represents a function. x12345y116642561,024 Which statement would best describe the graph of the function?