the city library started with 1,000 books, and the number of books grows continuously at a rate of 3% per year. create an exponential expression to model the number of books the library will have after t years. then, match each part of the exponential expression to what it represents in the context of the situation. is the number of books multiplied by e. the proportion of growth is 0.03 or 3%. this is continuous growth which is represented by . the growth speed is . the initial number of books is 1,000. the percentage multiplied by the number of years years is 0.03t. coefficient arrowright base arrowright rate arrowright exponent arrowright