If if the b greater than 1. If youre seeing this message it means were having trouble loading external resources on our website. It can be expressed by the formula ya 1-bx wherein y is the final amount a is the original amount b is the decay factor and x is the amount of time that has passed.
Here is the table of values and the graph of the two functions.
As the graph on the left shows at first exponential really decreases greatly but the rate of decay of becomes less and less until the becomes almost nothing. The two types of exponential functions are exponential growth and exponential decay. The graph of an exponential function looks like a curve that starts off with a very flat slope but starts getting steeper and. Examples of exponential functions 1.