STRETCH Optional
Robin is opening a restaurant and tells her staff they must go above and beyond to please their
customers, especially on opening day. She reasons that when one customer is pleased with the
restaurant, that person is likely to tell 4 people about it. Then each of those people is likely to tell
4 people about it, and so on.
Describe the pattern for the number of customers Robin's Restaurant will reach with
each telling.
2 Determine how many customers Robin reaches after the 5th, 6th, and 7th tellings.
3 Represent the number of customers reached with each telling as a numeric sequence.
Then represent the sequence using a table of values.
4 Identify the appropriate function family for the function. Then describe whether the function is
continuous or discrete.