Fitting Exponential Models to Data · Exercise 166

Enter the data from the table into a graphing calculator and graph the resulting scatter plot. Determine whether the data from the table would likely represent a function that is linear, exponential, or logarithmic.

$$\begin{array}{cc}\text{x}& \text{f(x)}\\ \text{1}& \text{3}\\ \text{2}& \text{8.55}\\ \text{3}& \text{11.79}\\ \text{4}& \text{14.09}\\ \text{5}& \text{15.88}\\ \text{6}& \text{17.33}\\ \text{7}& \text{18.57}\\ \text{8}& \text{19.64}\\ \text{9}& \text{20.58}\\ \text{10}& \text{21.42}\end{array}$$

Its source prints no answer for this problem, so there's nothing to check against.

OpenStax, Algebra and Trigonometry 2e · §6.8 Fitting Exponential Models to Data · Exercise 166