SOLUTION: Help please? I can't figure out how to write this. I keep doing it wrong. The table below shows the total population of a species of bird at the Bronx Zoo. What exponential func

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Question 831312: Help please? I can't figure out how to write this. I keep doing it wrong.
The table below shows the total population of a species of bird at the Bronx Zoo. What exponential function best represents this species' population growth?
Year Population
1 22
2 25
3 38
4 41
5 52
f(x)= ?
Thanks in advance!
-Mickey
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Those data points will not work as an exponential function. Slope between successive data point pairs do not keep a steady trend either increasing or decreasing. Would your example be a function COMPOSED of an exponential function? Or is f(x) supposed to be itself THE exponential function?