It looks like there may be a typo in the function you provided. It appears that you meant to write "f(x) = 80(0.5)^x", which would represent the distance after a pendulum begins swinging, where x is the number of swings.
This function indicates that the distance traveled by the pendulum decreases by half with each swing. For example, after the first swing, the distance traveled would be 80(0.5)^1 = 40 units. After the second swing, the distance traveled would be 80(0.5)^2 = 20 units. And so on.
The exponent x in the function represents the number of swings, so the distance traveled by the pendulum can be calculated by plugging in the desired value of x into the function. For example, to calculate the distance traveled after 10 swings, we can plug in x = 10:
f(10) = 80(0.5)^10 = 0.390625 units
This indicates that the pendulum has traveled a distance of approximately 0.39 units after 10 swings.