Question 1190085
your points are (0,12) and (2,768).
your equation is y = a * b ^ x.
12 is the value of y when x is equal to 0.
you get 12 = a * b^0 which becomes:
12 = a * 1 which becomes:
12 = a.
the equation becomes y = 12 * b ^ x.
y = 768 when x = 2.
the equation becomes 768 = 12 * b^2.
divide both sides of the equation by 12 to get:
64 = b^2.
take the square root of both sides of the equation to get:
64 ^ (1/2) = b
solve for b to get:
b = 8.
the equation becomes y = 12 * 8 ^ x.
that should be it.
this equation can be graphed as shown below:


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you can see that, when x = 0, y = 12, and when x = 2, y = 768.
the formula is good for all values of x.
x can be negative or positive.
when x = -1, the formua becomes y = 12 * 8 ^ -1 = 1.5.
the more negative x becomes, the closer to 0 y gets.
y will never, however, be equal to 0.
y = 12 * 8 ^ -30 gets you y = 9.6935 * 10^-27,
that's a very small positive number, but it is not 0.
y will never be 0 nor will y ever be negative.



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