Problem #6-8
Use this situation:
The Lake of Distress is contaminated with flesh-eating bacteria! Initially, the lake contained 4 square feet of bacteria. This area is tripling every hour. Assume that the relationship between hours and square feet of bacteria is continuous.
Is this situation linear or exponential? Why?
The explicit equation for the relationship is...
Problem #1-5
Determine if the situation is discrete or continuous.
Sally has 100 golf balls in a container. Every hour, she removes 3 balls to take with her to the putting green. The relationship between hours and golf balls in the container is .
Problem #9-11
Use this situation:
There is a discrete relationship between the number of workers and the number of bricks layed on a wall.
Use this information to answer problems 9–11
Is the relationship between workers and bricks laid linear or exponential? Justify how you know.
The explicit equation for the relationship is...
Bacteria steadily grows on an old abandoned house, doubling the amount of bacteria each day. The relationship between days and bacteria is:
Water flows down the Mississippi river at about 1.2 miles per hour (true fact!!). The relationship between hours and miles the water has traveled is .
In an Indian folk tale, a young girl is rewarded with 1 grain of rice on the first day, 2 grains of rice on day 2, and 4 grains of rice on day 3. This pattern of rewarding the girl with rice continues for each of 30 days.
Sam owns a movie theater and wants to track the amount of money his theater has made after selling each ticket. The table shows the relationship between tickets sold and profit.
