Exponential Growth and Decay Vocabulary 4.7.25

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What is an exponential function?

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What is another name for the base when its value is smaller than 1?

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Decay factor.

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Growth factor.

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10.

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What does an endangered species dying off represent?

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Exponential Decay.

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What is the general form of an exponential decay function?

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What is the difference between exponential growth and exponential decay?

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Exponential growth increases over time, while exponential decay decreases over time.

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What is the initial amount in an exponential function?

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What does the base represent in an exponential function?

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The factor by which the quantity grows or decays.

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How do you identify an exponential function from a table of values?

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If the ratio of consecutive outputs is constant, it is an exponential function.