The first choice can be any one of the 8 side dishes.
For each of these . . .
The 2nd choice can be any one of the remaining 7.
Total number of ways to pick 2 out of 8 = (8 x 7) = 56 ways .
BUT ...
That doesn't mean you can get 56 different sets of 2 side dishes.
For each different pair, there are 2 ways to choose them . . .
(first A then B), and (first B then A). Either way, you wind up with (A and B).
So yes, there are 56 different 'WAYS' to choose 2 out of 8.
But there are only 28 different possible results, and 2 'ways'
to get each result.
2 1/10 because the 1 in 2.1 is in the tenth place
Problem 3
This is not an exponential function. If you were to graph this out, you would see a parabola forming. Or at the very least, a parabolic-like curve forms. An exponential curve only increases or only decreases for the entire domain. However, in this case, we have an increasing portion, and then it decreases.
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Problem 4
This is an exponential function. Each time x increases by 1, y is multiplied by 4. The equation that models these points is y = 4^x. Note how the function is strictly increasing and there are no decreasing portions mixed in.
|528 1/5 - (-89 3/5)|
|528 1/5 + 89 3/5|
|617 4/5|
617 4/5
Hope this helped!
