Answer: First Option
a) exponential function going through point (0, 2) and ending up on the right
Step-by-step explanation:
Look at the attached image, the red line represents a function of the form:
Note that this function cuts to the axis and at the point (0, 1)
Also when x tends to ∞ f(x) tends to ∞ and when f(x) tends to -∞ then f(x) tends to zero.
If we perform the transformation 
then the graph of y is equal to the graph of f(x) displaced 1 unit up. Then the new cutting point with the axis y will be: (0, 2) as shown in the attached image (blue line)
The transform function is 
Finally the answer is the first option
The function represents exponential growth (since the exponent is positive).
The percentage increase is, if I'm not mistaken, 181.3% (since 710 is just a constant, we don't need to worry about that - it won't affect the growth rate of the function)
Once the numbers have the same base and exponents, we can add or subtract their coefficients.Here are the steps to adding or subtracting numbers in scientific notation:Determine the number by which to increase the smaller exponent by so it is to the equal larger exponent
Short Answer A
Comment
It's a good thing that the domain is confined or the graph is. That function is undefined if x < - 3
At exactly x = - 3, f(x) = 0 and that's your starting point.
So look what happens to this graph. If x = 0, f(0) = y = 3. So we are starting to see that as x get's larger so does f(x). The graph tells us that x = 0 is bigger than x = - 3.
Let's keep on plugging things in.
As x increases to 5, f(5) = 5. x = 5 is larger than x = 0, and f(5) > 3.
One more and then we'll start drawing conclusions. If x = 9 then f(9) = y = 6.
x = 9 is larger than x = 5. f(9) = 6 is just larger than f(5) which is 5
OK I think we should be ready to look at answers. There's nothing there that makes the answer anything but a. Let's find out what the problem is with the rest of the choices.
B
The problem with B is that as x increases, f(x) does not decrease. We didn't find one example of that. So B is wrong.
C
C has exactly the same problem as B.
D
The second statement in D is incorrect. As x increases f(x) never decreases. No example showed that.
The answer is A <<<< Answer.
