The use of linear and exponential models to predict growth patterns in science and medicine is not new. However, scientists and researchers continue to find new applications of the models to explain and predict growth patterns. Seiki Hamada and Makoto Takamiya of Japan have studied the growth patterns of a specific heart aneurism to better predict the estimated growth of an aneurism as well as to assist in determining when to recommend surgery. Hamada and Takamiya have found that aortic aneurisms grow in an exponential pattern rather than the hoped for linear pattern. Question content area bottom Part 1 What shape best describes the graph of an exponential model
