how to determine growth or decay with data points
We will now examine rate of growth and decay in a three step process. We will (1) build a chart to examine the data and see the growth or decay, (2) write an equation for the function, and (3) prepare a scatter plot of the data along with the graph of the function.or this example, each time x is increased by 1, y increases by a factor of 2. Such a situation is called Exponential Growth. Many real world phenomena can be modeled by functions that describe how things grow or decay as time passes.