A piece of gum is stuck to the tire of a bike wheel in motion. The vertical distance between the gum and the ground in centimeters is modeled by H(t) where t is the time in seconds the function is graphed below along with one segment highlighted. Which feature on the graph corresponds to the highlighted segment?

What is the meaning of the highlighted segment?

A. plot the data for the functions f(x) and g(x) on a grid and connect the points. x -2 -1 0 1 2 f(x) 1/9 1/3 1 3 9 x -2 -1 0 1 2 g(x) -4 -2 0 2 4 b. which function could be described as exponential and which as linear? explain. c. if the functions continue with the same pattern, will the function values ever be equal? if so, give estimates for the value of x that will make the function values equals. if not, explain why the function values will never be equal.