The number of infected banana plants with a rate of 8% will be in 8 years is 848.
What is exponential growth or decay function?
Consider the function:
y = a(1 + r)ˣ
where x is the number of times this growth/decay occurs, a = initial amount, and r = fraction by which this growth/decay occurs.
A blight is spreading on a banana plantation. Currently, 458 banana plants are infected.
If the disease is spreading at a rate of 8% each year.
Then the number of the plants that will be infected in 8 years.
Then the exponential function is given as
y = 458(1.08)ˣ
At x = 8, then we have
y = 458(1.08)⁸
y = 458 x 1.851
y = 847.73
y ≅ 848
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