Question

He breakdown of a sample of a chemical compound is represented by the function p(t) 300(0.5)t , where p(t) represents the number of milligrams of the substance and t represents the time, in years. in the function p(t), explain what 0.5 and 300 represent

Answer 1

300 represents the initial amount of the substance, the amount present at t=0.

0.5 is the fraction of substance remaining at the end of each year. The fact that this number is 1/2 indicates the half-life of the substance is 1 year.