Yes, you can put parenthesis inside of parenthesis.
Remember that the general decay equation is:
where
is the amount after a time
is the initial amount
is the the decay percent in decimal form
The first ting we are going to do is find
by dividing our <span>decay rate of 25% by 100%: </span>
.
We also know from our problem that
. Lets replace
and
in our formula:
We know now that our decay rate is 0.75, and since 0.75<1, we can conclude that
this situation represents exponential decay.
Now, to find the initial amount, we are going to solve our equation for
:
Notice that
will depend on the number of ours
. <span />
A slope of 1/2 means for every two units to the right we move up one.
We have to be careful here because the graphs don't always use the same scale for x and y.
The bottom left uses the same scale and does indeed go two units to the right for every unit up, so that one is the answer.
Answer: 1
Step-by-step explanation:
first, i multiplied it all out.
1.5^2/1.5^2
then, i simply divided it all.
1