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=Exponential Growth and Decay Outside the Classroom =

We've just finished learning how to write and graph exponential growth and decay functions. Now it's time to fast forward into the future and put our newly learned skills to good use.

Let's pretend that you've just graduated from college. You've got a lot of big financial decisions to make and luckily most of them involve some type of exponential function.

If you need a refresher on the exponential function models before we get started, Purplemath can be used to review (you can ignore pages 3 and 5).

Next: Example #1 of Exponential Functions in "Real Life"

This activity was adapted from @http://questgarden.com/75/84/4/090121190659/index.htm