How can you tell from an exponential equation if it's a growth or decay model?

Which expression is equivalent to (9x - 3 1/ + 1 3/8)

Arestaurant chef made 1 1/2 jars of pasta sauce. each serving of pasta requires 1/2 of a jar of sauce. how many servings of pasta will the chef be bale to prepare using the sauce?

Asurvey of 45 teens found that they spent an average of 25.6 hours per week in front of a screen (television, computer, tablet, phone, based on the survey’s sample mean, which value could be the population mean? 2.3 hours 27.4 hours 75.3 hours 41.5 hours