Trying to help my daughter with homework but stuck
exponential decay and finding the value of t when 40 = 80 x 2^-0.015t
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To get you started. You can use logarithm rules.
28 February 2013
That was my fear. I have had a look at several tutorials and finally the memory came back (yes, I did A Level maths and physics but age plays funny tricks). Because she is only just 14, I was sure that they would not be doing natural logarithms and therefore there was something easy I was missing. Guess not and all this hype about falling standards is crap. Many thanks.
28 February 2013
There is another way. If you rearrange the equation, you can see that the power of 2 needs to = -1. So 0.015t=1. I'm answering this on my phone but when I get to a computer I'll go into more detail about how I got to that if you'd like. It doesn't require any logarithms.
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On a computer now.
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therefore
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so
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Hope you follow that ok
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Many thanks for the help. Homework submitted and all is well.
08 March 2013
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