Ajay analyzed two companies and has formulated tables to model each company’s growth, where x represents the age of the companies in years and y represents growth in terms of number of employees. Company 1 Company 2
Table 1 Table 2
x l y x l y
0 l 0 0 l 1
1 l 6 1 l 6
2 l 12 2 l 36
3 l 18 2 l 216
4 l 24 4 l 1,296




If the number of employees is an indicator of a successful business, in which company should Ajay invest? company 1 because it is adding six employees each year while company 2 is multiplying its number of employees by six each year company 1 because it is multiplying its number of employees by six each year while company 2 is adding six employees each year company 2 because it is adding six employees each year while c