Growth and Decay
What is the formula used for exponential growth?
What is y=a(1+r)^t?
What does "half-life" mean in math?
What is the time it takes for a quantity to decrease to half its original value?
What is the general form of linear functions?
What is y=mx+b?
What does the exponent represent in an exponential functions?
What is time or the number of intervals?
What does (IQR) stand for?
What is interquartile range?
In exponential Decay, what does the base of the exponent represent?
What is the Decay factor?
What formula is used to calculate half-life?
What is y=a (1/2)^t/h, where h is the half-life?
Which grows faster in the long run: linear or exponential?
What is exponential
What is the base in the functions y=3(2)^x?
What is 2?
What does the IQR measure?
What is the spread of the middle 50% of data?
If a population of 500 grows by 10% annually, what will the population be after 1 year?
What is 550?
If substance has a half-life of 3 hours, how much remains after 6 hours?
What is one-fourth of the original amount?
Graphically, how can you tell the difference between exponential and linear functions
What is exponential curves upward and linear is a straight line?
What happens when the base of an exponential function between 0 and 1?
What is exponential Decay?
How do you calculate IQR?
What is Q3-Q1
Describe a real-world example of exponential Decay.
What is a radioactive substance losing mass over time?
What is doubling time?
What is the amount of time it takes for a quantity to double in size?
Which type of functions has a constant rate of change?
What is linear?
What is the y-intercept of the functions y=5(3)^x?
What is 5?
If Q1 if 25 and Q3 is 70, what is the IQR?
What is 45?
A value drops from 2000 to 1600 in one year. Is this growth or Decay? What is the rate?
What is Decay; 20%?
A population doubles every 4 years. What is the population after 12 years if it starts at 500?
What is 4000?
If a savings account earns compound interest, is it modeled by a linear or exponential functions?
What is exponential?
Describe the shape of an exponential growth graph.
What is a curve that gets steeper as x increases?
Why is IQR useful in statistics?
What is to measure variability and detect outliers?