Two submarines starting from the same point cruise for two hours, one covering 30 miles per hour and the other 40 miles per hour
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Answer:
t = 6162 years
Step-by-step explanation:
Apparently you are asked to use the constant k = 0.0001 instead of the most common 0.00012. We'll answer the problem using such number you typed, but make sure that there is no omission in your typing.
The equation to use is that for carbon decay:
If the skull contains 54% of its original amount of C14, then that means that :
we use this to solve for the time (t) in our equation:
which rounded to the nearest year as requested gives :
t = 6162 years
Hmmm the y-intercept is at -2? what does that mean? well, is where the graph "intercepts" or touches the y-axis, and when that happens, x = 0, so the point is really ( 0 , -2 ).
and we know where the vertex is at. Let's assume a vertical parabola, in which case the squared variable is the "x".
and we know where the vertex is at. Let's assume a vertical parabola, in which case the squared variable is the "x".
Add 1 to both sides:
In cases like this, we have to remember that a root is always positive, so we can square both sides only assuming that
Under this assumption, we square both sides and we have
The solutions to this equation are
But since we can only accept solutions greater than -1, we discard and accept
.
In fact, we have
and
which is the only solution.