Every year, teams from 64 colleges qualify to compete in

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Every year, teams from 64 colleges qualify to compete in the NCAA womens basketball playoffs. For each round, every team is paired with an opponent. A team is eliminated from the tournament once it loses a round. So, at the end of a round, only half of the teams move on to the next round. Let () be the number of teams remaining in competition after rounds of the tournament have been played. (a) Find a formula for () and graph = (). (b) In 2013 the Connecticut Huskies defeated the Louisville Cardinals 9360 in the final round. How many rounds did Connecticut have to go through to win the championship game?

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