As a puritan minister, mather believed that god had chosen him for a special mission in the new world: to root out evil and establish the kingdom of god. where in his text do you find evidence of this sense of personal destiny?

Horizontal asymptote at  tells us that the original graph has been translated down.since  ,  are positive.  also we can say that the point  has a smaller  -coordinate than  .this means that the  transformed exponential function is increasing as it goes to the right. as it goes from  to , the value of the exponential function increases. it goes from to something bigger, . therefore, as  . the left hand would be the side that approaches the horizontal asymptote.so the answer is d