A student carries out a radioactive decay experiment. She measures the activity of a source as a function of time, and comes up with the following mathematical model: R(t) = 714 xe-0.41xt in which the activity is in becquerels (decays per second) and the time is in minutes. The activity of the source at t = 0, in nCi (nanocurie), is (1 Ci = 3.7 x 1010 Bq):

A student carries out a radioactive decay experiment. She measures the activity of a source as a function of time, and comes up with the following mathematical model: R(t) = 714 xe-0.41xt in which the activity is in becquerels (decays per second) and the time is in minutes. The activity of the source at t = 0, in nCi (nanocurie), is (1 Ci = 3.7 x 1010 Bq):

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Chapter1: Units, Trigonometry. And Vectors

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