Question

Please help. Medal and fan.

Answer 1

Iris has been studying an invasive population of snails. This particular snail has no local predators, so the population grows wildly. She has observed that the population follows an exponential rate of growth for fifteen years.

Create your own exponential function, f(x), which models the snail population. You will need to identify the principal population of the snails and the rate of growth each year. Explain to Iris how your function shows the principal population and the rate of growth, in complete sentences.

My function was \[f(x)=2(4)^{2x}\]

I don't really get the principal part. :/

Answer 2

The principal population is the number or variable that represents the population size of the snails before the exponential growth. Principal is basically another way of saying "original amount"

Answer 3

so would it be 2 or 32? @StudyGurl14