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romjke
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Hello! My question for you is regarding models of functions. I am in first year calculus and we are covering a lot of material on modeling functions given a set of data or a graph, etc. I partially understand the material, but the information is scattered in my mind and when I go to formulate a model I get things confused. It seems either the examples in my text (stewart) are to vague, or the information on the web are irrelevant.
Could someone help me in telling me a step-by-step process to solving these questions? Or share a link that will go through all of the models I might run across. I tried looking online already, but most of everything is in the form of e and we have learned to model a function using constants like a,b,c.
I know an exponential growth graph is in the shape of a J, but what if x approaches a limit to the right? What if my data starts at (0,0) or (0,a)? An exponential decay model in its increasing form looks the same as an exponential growth model, so what's the difference? It just seems like there are so many scenarios that I can use different models at a minuscule difference.
TY!
Could someone help me in telling me a step-by-step process to solving these questions? Or share a link that will go through all of the models I might run across. I tried looking online already, but most of everything is in the form of e and we have learned to model a function using constants like a,b,c.
I know an exponential growth graph is in the shape of a J, but what if x approaches a limit to the right? What if my data starts at (0,0) or (0,a)? An exponential decay model in its increasing form looks the same as an exponential growth model, so what's the difference? It just seems like there are so many scenarios that I can use different models at a minuscule difference.
TY!