An amusement park opens daily at 9:30 a. m. This morning the parking lot for the amusement park opened at 8:00 a. m. At 9:00 a. m., there were 132 cars in the parking lot. The parking attendants noticed that every half hour between 9:00 a. m. and 10:30 a. m., the number of cars in the parking lot tripled. What type of function appropriately models this situation?

Question 2 (essay worth 10 points) (03.02 mc) in δabc shown below, point a is at (0, 0), point b is at (x2, 0), point c is at (x1, y1), point d is at x sub 1 over 2, y sub 1 over 2, and point e is at the quantity of x sub 1 plus x sub 2 over 2, y sub 1 over 2: triangle abc is shown. point d lies on segment ac and point e lies on segment bc. a segment is drawn between points d and e. point a is at the origin. prove that segment de is parallel to segment ab.