Question

Suppose that you have a bowl of 500 m&m candies, and each day you eat 1/4 of the candies you have. Is the number of candies left changing linearly or exponentially? Write an equation to model the number of candies left after n days.

Answer 1

Answer:

$500(.75)^{n}$

Step-by-step explanation:

It is changing exponentially because if you are eating a fraction of the left over m & m's, that is a different amount each time so it can't be linear.

500(1-(1/4))^n

$500(.75)^{n}$