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Given That Mass Loss Is Expressed as a Negative Exponential

Question 56

Question 56

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Given that mass loss is expressed as a negative exponential function (original mass remaining = e-kt) ,how much mass would be left after 20 weeks given a decomposition coefficient k = 0.0167 in units of proportion mass loss per week?


A) 0) 203
B) 0) 716
C) 0) 916
D) 1) 390

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