Given That Mass Loss Is Expressed as a Negative Exponential

question 56

Multiple Choice

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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