Q. Exponential growth in plants can 'be expressed as :

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Solution:

The exponential growth can be mathematically represented as follows:

Here, final size (weight, height, number etc.), initial size at the beginning of the period, growth rate, time of growth and base of natural logarithms. Mathematically, the arithmetic growth rate can be shown as follows:

Here, is the length at time is length at time 0 and is the rate per unit time.