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You leave a pile of sand in your backyard on a windy day. Every minute the wind blows away 10 percent of the remaining sand. You

started with five cubic feet of sand. What equation models the amount of sand after minutes?

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Grace [21]2 years ago

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10% of the remaining sand
You had 5 ft of sand
So y=5(.10(x))

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