Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: F Le Bacteria Populations
This task provides a real-world context for interpreting and solving exponential equations. Students are asked to examine the equations representing the growth of three colonies of the bacterium that causes pneumonia, each colony being...
University of Saskatchewan (Canada)
University of Saskatchewan: Modeling Exponential Decay Using Logarithms
Radioactive decay is a real-life example of exponential decay. This site solves an example problem by using the exponential decay equation.