See how many times the denominator goes into the numerator. For example, with 24/8, 8 goes into 24 three times, so 24/8 is 3. If I had 25/8, then it would be 3 1/8 because you have one left over after you divide the 8 into 25.
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 />
Answer:
Where is the first bag? We cant solve the question without knowing the marbles in the first bag