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Yeah Whoa Okay Say T match members A short question

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foryou Cells double in number every few hours Which of

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the following graph models the number of cells as a

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function of time Okay so if they double and they

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keep doubling your expecting like a huge fast f sixteen

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flight upwards like straight up So it just looking at

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a let doesn't make any sense I would mean like

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they're the same amount No matter how much time like

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time is long this XX is here meaning that they

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just grow the same with time and be well that

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just is a kind of flat There's nothing geometric going

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on it What about the doubling thing And see Says

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they just grow infinitely fast and well here's the that

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looks about like the way in F sixteen takes off

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Right So we gotta hand it to him Cells reproduce

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quickly in order to keep the body going Since sells

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consistently double in number while they form an exponential function

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Don't believe us counted out One two four eight sixteen

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thirty two sixty four Yeah Here's another way to express

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that pattern It's two to zero to the one to

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do the three and so on So we've been through

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the others They're all straight lines It doesn't mean anything

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if it can't reflect the geometric compounding here that defines

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a curve Well good work sells You guys keep reproducing

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and we'll keep solving math problems So yeah the answer 00:01:17.9 --> [endTime] is D right here That's a airplane taking off

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