How does poe motivate the behavior of montresor? does the story provide any hints as to the "thousand injuries" he has suffered? are any hints necessary?

What are the choices?

True, but now it isn't a little more than  $5,000, it's more than $10,000 due to inflation, higher taxes, and bad economy.

Horizontal asymptote at  tells us that the original graph has been translated down.since  ,  are positive.  also we can say that the point  has a smaller  -coordinate than  .this means that the  transformed exponential function is increasing as it goes to the right. as it goes from  to , the value of the exponential function increases. it goes from to something bigger, . therefore, as  . the left hand would be the side that approaches the horizontal asymptote.so the answer is d