1 Jake is observing the population growth of insects He started with 24 insects and the population triples every day Use x to represent the of days and y to represent the population of insects Write an equation to represent the scenario 2 Tell if each equation represents exponential growth exponential decay or neither and why a f t b P 22 1 76 c V 0 45 d W 3 2 x e g x 4 2 3