Data from an experiment may result in a graph indicating exponential growth ... in the form of the equation of a straight line \(y = mx + c\). Shown below is a straight line graph when ...

For example, in the right hand graph of Figure 2 is a population of Paramecium growing in a laboratory culture. The pattern of growth is very close to the pattern of the exponential equation.

Curved graphs can be used to solve equations. The points at which the curve crosses a particular line on the graph are the solutions to the equation. If we want to solve the equation \(\text{x}^ ...