Answer:
The number of boxes in an airmail shipment is discrete.
<em>Here is the trick:</em> If you can count it with your fingers, it is discrete, otherwise it is continuous.
*Assume you have a lot of fingers sometimes.
An example of something discrete would be the number of people in a room, because you cannot ever have half a person it means you will always have a whole number and thus discrete.
Something continuous would be how tall you are. You may tell everyone that you are 5'8 but really you are probably 5 foot 8.10444124(some crazy long decimal) inches. Additionalyl people are constantly growing and shrinking at all times throughout their lives due to the gravity, bad posture and natural growth thus it is variable that is varying and continous.
If you divide 25 by 12, then you will get 2.083 (3 repeating). If we round that, it will turn to about 3 inches.
One of axoims state that there are at least 2 points that lie in the same line.
Answer:
a. Decay
b. 0.5
c. 4
Explanation:
If we have a function of the form
then
a = intital amount
b = growth / decay rate factor
x = time interval
If b > 1; then the equation is modelling growth. If b < 0, then the equation is modelling decay.
Now in our case, we have
Here we see that
inital amount = a = 4
b = 1/ 2 < 0, meaning the function is modeling decay
decay factor = b = 1/2
Therefore, the answers are
a. Decay
b. 0.5
c. 4
