The function that gives the shares received by a post whereby each friend
shares the post a constant multiple of times each day is exponential.
The given table of values for Ben's social media post is presented as follows;
[tex]\begin{tabular}{|c|c|}Day&Number of shares\\0&2\\1&6\\2&18\end{array}\right][/tex]
The number of shares triples everyday, therefore, the number of shares form a geometric progression, with a common ratio of r = 3, and a first term of a = 2
The function for the number of shares of Ben's post is, tₙ = a·rⁿ
Which gives;
Number of friends Carter shared his post with = 10 friends
Number of people each of the 10 friends shared with each day = 2 people
The exponential function for number of shares received by Carter is therefore, tₙ = 10×2ⁿ
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