Consider expression First, you can factor it:
Since x is integer number, then you can see that x-1 is previous integer number (x-1 is 1 unit smaller than x).
Therefore, x-1 and x are two consecutive integers. When you have two consecutive integers, one of them is always even and one is always odd. Multiplying even integer number by odd integer number you always get even integer number.
Thus, is always even.
Answer:
Yes, the given table represent an exponential function.
Step-by-step explanation:
Given table is :
x y
1 4
2 16
3 64
4 256
Now we need to identify if the given table represent an exponential function or not. To find that we need to check if we can write the numbers in y-column in form of exponential function .
We see that y-values are basically powers of 4 so we can write the related function as .
Which is clearly in form of .
Hence yes, the given table represent an exponential function.
