What kind of situations can be modeled with exponential growth or exponential decay functions?

According to statistics a person will devote 32 years to sleeping and watching tv. the number of years sleeping will exceed the number of years watching tv by 18. over a lifetime, how many years will the person spend on each of these activities

Which data set has a greater spread? why? set a: {38, 12, 23, 48, 55, 16, 18} set b: {44, 13, 24, 12, 56} has a greater spread because .

Inez has a phone card. the graph shows the number of minutes that remain on her phone card a certain number of days.