Question

kendrick deposits twice as much money into his account as he did the day before his initial deposit is 5 dollars write an equation to model his daily deposit,y, x days after his initial deposits

Answer 1

To represent this scenario, you will look at what is happening mathematically and represent it.

Beginning with 5, this will double each day, so 5 x 2 is the deposit.

Then, this amount will double, so (5 x 2) x 2 is the deposit.

Next this will double, and so on.

What is happening is that it is always doubling the previous day's deposit, so x 2 x 2 x 2, etc... you will use exponents to show the number of days that it doubled.

y = 5 x 2^x