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Buying Cars/Financing Cars Compound Interest

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Provide a real world context in which exponential functions are used to determine a eal world phenomena such as compound interest and exponential growth. This lesson should be taught after learners have mastered the laws of exponents and are able to explain what an exponential graph looks like.

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Grade
11th - 12th
Subjects
Math
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2 days
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Simulation
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