Introduction:
Eve needed money, so she answered an ad for a job stuffing envelopes. To get started, she had to pay a fee and sign up new members. Eve got suspicious. The job turned out to be a pyramid scheme—a money scam that grows “exponentially.”
In this lesson you will:
- Track the exponential growth of a get-rich-quick scheme
- Learn the definitions of base and exponent
- Calculate the values of numbers in exponential form
Photo: fdecomite / CC-BY-SA-2.0
Skills:
Consumer Math
Exponents