SOLUTION: Before the advent of antibiotics an outbreak of cholera might spread through a city so that the number of cases doubled every 6 days.
a. Twenty-six cases were discovered on July
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Question 1058297: Before the advent of antibiotics an outbreak of cholera might spread through a city so that the number of cases doubled every 6 days.
a. Twenty-six cases were discovered on July 5. Write a function for the number of cases of cholera t days later.
b) Graph your function on the interval 0 ≤ t ≤ 30.
c) How long will it be before a $20,000 mobile home decreciates to $12,800?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
When t reaches 6 days, exponent is 1, and the factor applied is 2. This is how p becomes doubled.
Next, use July 5 as t=0. p=26.
--------your model.
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