Question

a 5 inch tall bamboo shoots double in height every 3 days if the equation equals y=ab^x where x is a number of doubling periods represent the height of the bamboo shoot what are the values of a and b

Answer 1

a = initial amount, which is 5 inches

b = rate of increasing, in this case 200% or 2.0 (it's being doubled its height, so the rate would be twice as much as its full state)

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