Exponential Functions Growth Factor Word Problems

Annual sales for a fast food restaurant are $650,000 and are increasing at a factor of 1.04 per year. Use an exponential function to find the annual sales after 7 years.

• $1,000,124

• $4,030

• $855,355.66

• $434,505.66

The number of turkey vultures in a nature sanctuary is doubling each year. When the sanctuary opened, it was home to 204 turkey vultures. Which equation can be used to find the number of turkey vultures after x years?

A population of ants increases by a factor of 5 each year. Initially there were 450 aunts. Which equation represents the amount of aunts after 9 years?

Let y represent the total amount of aunts after x years.

You have 40 grams of a radioactive kind of silver. How much will be left after 14 days if it triples each day?

*Use Google Calculator and shift 6 to get the exponent.

• 191,318,760

• 109,760

• 18,130,406

• 14000

The population of Winnemucca, Nevada, can be modeled by P=6191(1.04)^t where t is the number of years since 1990. What is the population of the town 21 years later?

• 6191

• 9912

• 72519

• 14108

Hint: use a graph and/or table of values to determine the answer

• approximately 16 years

• approximately 6 years

• approximately 10 years

Using the exponential function equation f(x)=ab^x, where a is the starting value and b is the growth or decay, and x is the time, find the population of rabbits after 6 months if the population triples every month and initially there are 50 rabbits.

• 50000

• 145800

• 3000

• 800

Using the exponential function equation f(x)=ab^x, where a is the starting value and b is the growth or decay, and x is the time, find the population of bacteria after 5 hours if it doubles every hour and initially has 100 bacteria.

• 500

• 3200

• 2000

• 1000

Using the exponential function equation f(x)=ab^x, where a is the starting value and b is the growth or decay, and x is the time, find the value of a house after 15 years if it initially worth $250,000 and increases by 5% each year.

• $405,518.75

• $500,000

• $425,000

• $375,000

Using the exponential function equation f(x)=ab^x, where a is the starting value and b is the growth or decay, and x is the time, find the population of fish after 8 weeks if the population doubles every week and initially there are 1000 fish.

• 128000

• 512000

• 64000

• 256000