The amount of money left on a loan that kira owes her grandmothers is represented by the function k(t)= 280(.88)^t where k(t) represents the amount of money left on the loan and t tepresents the time, in years.
1) identify k(t) as growth or decay and explain your answer.

2) name a0, startinf amount and explain what it represents.
3) find r, the percent change and explain what it represents.
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step-by-step explanation:

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step-by-step explanation:

we can analyze the pattern at which the terms increase. let us denote , , , so that we can call

note the following:

the pattern: to get the next term value, we just add the next term number (e.g. 1st, 2nd, to the previous term value (term values are the given numbers in the question, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

from , to get to , we add

from , to get to , we add

etc.

we need to form a recursive formula, a formula that has the next term as a function of the previous term. so a possible recursive formula can be

, and for