You purchased 40 bulbs of garlic at 1$ a bulb. Once each bulb was broken down, each clove is planted.

Instead of counting every clove, you took a sample of 10 bulbs and recorded how many cloves each bulb produced.

9

6

7

12

7

10

12

11

6

7

Based on the information above, analyze the situation and write up a report. Please organize your work and upload to this assignment by the due date.

1. Approximately how many cloves were planted in the ground in 2020? Include your reasoning.

2. Suppose you didn't eat or sell any garlic. Instead you used all of the new garlic for planting year after year.

a. Is there a function to represent this situation?

b. When will you have 100 bulbs of garlic?

c. When will you have 1,000 bulbs of garlic?

d. Create a graph to display the growth.

3. Based on your extensive knowledge of garlic farming and growth functions, if you farmed garlic for 5 years then sold all of it for 2$ a bulb, how much money would you make?

4. What is your advice to others seeking riches in the garlic business?