The following applet displays the graph of the exponential function .
Interact with the applet below for a few minutes, then answer the questions that follow.
1) How does the parameter a affect the graph of the exponential function? What happens if a is between 0 and 1? What happens when a is 0? Why?
2) How does the parameter k affect the graph of the exponential function? What happens if k=0? k < 0?
3) How does the parameter d affect the graph of the exponential function? Have you seen this effect on graphs before?
4) How does the parameter c affect the graph of the exponential function? What happens if c<0?