-18. The value has gone down $18 on the gift card.
Answer:
I think that it is something to do with the atmosphere and the way that the light bounces around it. Here is some information from a website to back this up. "The Short Answer: Gases and particles in Earth's atmosphere scatter sunlight in all directions. Blue light is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves."
I solve this question by hand and have attached images for you because it is very difficult or impossible to do it here . I do it as simple as I can and make it very comprehensive for you. Hopefully, you will understand.
Note: the order for images remain same as I have attached.
The growth factor of the function is 2 because that’s the number being raised to the power of x every time.
y = a(b)^x