Which of the following best explains the importance of stock exchanges in the cities of Mumbai, India and Shanghai, China? A. These cities have a large manufacturing labor force.

B. These cities function as global economic centers in the core.

C. These cities function as global economic centers in the semiperiphery.

D. These edge cities have a large number of high-technology companies.

E. These edge cities are built at the intersection of transportation routes.

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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