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What does the constant 0.2 reveal about the rate of change of the quantity?

What does the constant 0.2 reveal about the rate of change of the quantity?-example-1
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In this problem, we have an exponential decay function

so

the function is of the form


y=a(1-r)^x

In this problem we have


f(t)=310(0.2)^(24t)=310(1-0.8)^(24t)

therefore

The answer is

The function is decaying exponentially at a rate of 80% every 24 days

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