Question

Logan is studying the reproductive rate of fruit flies and uses the table below to record the fruit fly population every week for 5 weeks. Which of the following functions would best fit his data?

Week (W) 1 2 3 4 5
Number of fruit flies (N) 2 10 50 250 1250

A. N = 2+(5)^w
B. N = 2(5)^w-1
C. N = 5(2)^w-1
D. N= 5(2)^w
someone please help asap

Answer 1

Which one do you think it is?

Answer 2

B

Answer 3

correct

Answer 4

yep it is B

Answer 5

are you sure

Answer 6

\[2*5^{1-1}=2\]\[2*5^{2-1}=10\]\[2*5^{3-1}=50\]\[2*5^{4-1}=250\]....

Answer 7

so B is indeed true

Answer 8

What LynFran said^^^

Answer 9

Thank you!