Gene G. answered 07/17/13
Retired Electrical Engineer Helping People Understand Math
These are not ordered pairs. You have to include the parentheses! Did you mean:
(0,1) (1,2) (2,4) (4,8) (5,16) ?
if so, then y = 2(x-1)
Notice that each of the y values is a power of 2: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16.
These are 20, 21, 22, 23, and 24.
So the form of our equation will be 2?.
You can see that the exponent is 1 less than x for each ordered pair, so:
y = 2(x-1)
Imtiazur S.
Gene,
y=2^(x-1) doesn't work for the first 3 points. I am not sure if this set of ordered pairs represents a simple function.
07/27/13