By using the information given on the graph, we can see that a = 3.
<h3>How to find the value of a?</h3>
Here we have an exponential of the form:
And by looking at the graph, it passes through (0, 4) and (2, 36), so we can write:
From the first equation we get that p = 4, replacing that on the second one we get:
So we conclude that a = 3.
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