Illustrative Math - Algebra 2 - Unit 4 - Lesson 1

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Select all sequences that could be geometric.​​​​​​
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A blogger had 400 subscribers to her blog in January. The number of subscribers has grown by a factor of 1.5 every month since then. Write a sequence to represent the number of subscribers in the 3 months that followed.
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Tyler says that the sequence 1, 1, 1,... of repeating 1s is not exponential because it does not change. Do you agree with Tyler? Explain your reasoning.
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In 2000, an invasive plant species covered 0.2% of an island. For the 5 years that followed, the area covered by the plant tripled every year.

A student said, “That means that about half of the island’s area was covered by the plant in 2005!”

Do you agree with his statement? Explain your reasoning.
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A geometric sequence g starts 5, 15, . . . . Explain how you would calculate the value of the 50th term.
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Select all the expressions equivalent to 9^{4}.
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This lesson is from Illustrative Mathematics. Algebra 2, Unit 4, Lesson 1. Internet. Available from https://curriculum.illustrativemathematics.org/HS/teachers/3/4/1/index.html ; accessed 27/July/2021.

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