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The National Debt and Wars – Conclusion 1. What is the basic shape of an exponential growth curve? An exponential decay curve? **2. **It has been said that any curve can be approximated as linear over short intervals. Discuss that this means and whether you think it is true.  **3. **For an exponential growth (or decay curve), describe the graph of percent change in the dependent values over uniform time intervals.  **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 24px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">4. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 24px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">From 1920 to1930, the debt had declined from $25.952 million to $16.185 million. By 1940 <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 24px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">the debt had jumped to $42.968 million. What was going on in the country during the 1920s <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 24px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">& 1930s to cause the decline and then increase <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 24px; line-height: 115%; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">in the debt?