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Question 1080247: Use constant differences or ratios to determine which parent function would best model the given data set.
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exponential
linear
square root
quadratic

Answer by josgarithmetic(39616)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Exponential.

Try taking logs of each y value, and look at the successive differences between of log of y; they are all about the same 0.0792.

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