The media regularly refers to "exponential" growth in the number of cases of COVID-19 respiratory disease, and deaths from the disease, but the numbers suggest something else, a "small world ...

From the graph, we can also see that the y-intercept is 6, therefore we can say that the equation of the straight line is \ (y = mx + 6\). Now we need to find the gradient.

This is an example of an exponential graph in the form \ (y = k^x\). Graphs in the form of \ (y = k^x\) increase in value.