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Emma drank three 8 ounce cups of coffee. Each cup of coffee contains 130 mg of caffeine. Emma's body elimantes 13% of the caffeine each hour. Write an exponential function that represents the amount of caffeine, C , in her body after t hours.

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so ok

reduced by 13% each times 100-13=87 so 87 % of previous

so

t=time elapsed
I=initial amount
C=future amount
C=I(percentrate)^t

so

C=130(0.87)^t
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