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I don’t understand exponential decay

I don’t understand exponential decay-example-1
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Decay means the value gets smaller.

In order for a value to get smaller you need to multiply by a value less than 1

The first equation uses 0.5 which is less than 1

The second equation uses 0.4 which is less than 1

The third equation does not have a decimal and uses 4, which is greater than 1, so cannot get smaller.

The fourth equation uses 0.5 which is less than 1

The answer would be the 3rd one.

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