Mar 12: 3
Mar 13: 8
Mar 14: 11
Mar 15: 16
Mar 16: 25
Mar 17: 50

Whats the pattern? Is the pattern linear, quadratic, or exponential? Can you predict the number of cases for march 18, 19 and 20? What about March 25th?

Step-by-step explanation:

The six seemingly arbitrary points have no common difference or ratio, so cannot be modeled by a linear or exponential function.

The differences of the differences are not constant at any level, so the only polynomial model is 5th-degree. It is ...

  (6n^5 -95n^4 +600n^3 -1825n^2 +2814n -1320)/60

where n = days after Mar 11. (Mar 12 corresponds to n=1.) The domain is n ≥ 1.

The 5th-degree polynomial increases very fast, but not as fast as an exponential function would.

The values for Mar 12 through Mar 25 are ...

  3, 8, 11, 16, 25, 50, 125, 318, 743, 1572, 3047, 5492, 9325, 15070

complete the steps to find the area of the trapezoid.

area of rectangle = 256   square units

area of triangle 1 = 24  square units

area of triangle 2 = 16  square units

area of triangle 3 =   96 square units

area of trapezoid = 120  square units

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