Rudy watched a movie about aliens who never stop growing. Every alien is 93 centimeters tall at birth and grows exactly 17 centimeters each year.
Let y represent the number of years since birth and h represent the alien's height in centimeters.

Solve for h

How would you write an equation for this?

Question

Rudy watched a movie about aliens who never stop growing. Every alien is 93 centimeters tall at birth and grows exactly 17 centimeters each year.
Let y represent the number of years since birth and h represent the alien's height in centimeters.

Solve for h

How would you write an equation for this?

astrophysics · Answer

So lets say the initial height is 93 cm and we know each year the alien grows 17 cm where y is the year. So y = 1 is year 1, y = 2 is year 2, etc. 
And the total height h is what we're looking for, so any idea how we can model this?

astrophysics · Answer

When the alien is born we can the initial height $h_0$ is $$h_0 = 93 cm$$ h would then be $$h = h_0 + ...?$$