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Keisha makes a large sandwich for a family picnic she takes 1/2 of them the sandwich to the picnic her family eats 3/8 of the whole sandwich what fraction of the whole sandwich does keisha bring back from the picnic

Do some research and find a city that has experienced population growth. determine its population on january 1st of a certain year. write an exponential function to represent the city’s population, y, based on the number of years that pass, x after a period of exponential growth. describe the variables and numbers that you used in your equation.

[10 points, algebra 2]according to my answer key the restrictions are -1 and 4. but why not positive 1?