Can someone show me how to even start with 1 and 2?

All you need to know is that

So, the first function grows exponentially and the second decays exponentially. The rate of growth/decay are the bases of the exponentials, which means 1.08 and 0.205

answer

d. 10

explanation

the distance from point y to wx is the height of the triangle.

using pythagoras theorem,

group similar terms to get,

this implies that,

take positive square root of both sides to get,

this implies that,