Ceorgia Department of Education Georgia Standards of Excellence Framework
Gel Menulis
Investigating Exponential Growth and Decay
1. Take a large rectangular sheet of paper and fold it in hall. You now have two equal sized
sections each with an area that is half the original use.
2. Pold the paper in half agzin. How many sections of paper do you have? What is the us of
each section compared to the area of the original piece of paper
Continue this process until you cannot fold the paper anymore. Fill in the table below as
you go
Number of Folds
0
1
2
3
4
Burber of Sections
Arez of each section
compared to 292 of
original paper
3. The reiztionship between the mudou of folds and the word ber of sections is a function
Why?
What is the domain of this function?
On your pups in the horizontal zzis represent the number of folds. La the verticali
represent the hero fictic