GPS: MM3A2e, MM3A2f, MM3A2g. An exponential decay function has the form y = ab x, where a>0 and 0
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Transcript of GPS: MM3A2e, MM3A2f, MM3A2g. An exponential decay function has the form y = ab x, where a>0 and 0
4.2 – Graph Exponential Decay Functions
GPS: MM3A2e, MM3A2f, MM3A2g
MM3A2e – Investigate and explain characteristics of exponential and logarithmic functions including domain and range, asymptotes, zeros, intercepts, intervals of increase and decrease, and rate of change
MM3A2f – Graph functions as transformations of
MM3A2g – Explore real phenomena related to exponential and logarithmic functions including half-life and doubling time.
GPS
An exponential decay function has the form y = abx , where a>0 and 0<b<1.
The base b of an exponential decay function is called the decay factor.
The time required for a substance to fall to half its initial value is called half-life.
Exponential Decay Model When a real-life quantity decreases by a fixed percent each year (or other time period), the amount y of the quantity after t years can be modeled by the equation y= a(1-r)t, where a is the initial amount and r is the percent decrease expressed as a decimal. Note that the quantity 1-r is the decay factor.
Vocabulary
What are some telling factors that the function is growth or decay?
What is Exponential Decay? Examples?
Graph
Steps: ◦ Make a table◦ Plot your points◦ Asymptote?◦ Domain & Range
Graph y=bx for 0 < b < 1
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Graph
Steps: ◦ Make a table◦ Plot your points◦ Asymptote?◦ Domain & Range
Graph y=abx for 0 < b < 1
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Graph
Steps: ◦ Make a table◦ Plot your points◦ Asymptote?◦ Domain & Range
Graph y=abx-h +k for 0 < b < 1
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When a plant dies, it stops acquiring carbon-14 from the atmosphere. Carbon-14 decays over time with a half-life of about 5730 years. The percent P (in decimal form) of the original amount of carbon-14 that remains in a sample after t years is given by:
About how many years after a plant dies will 60% of the carbon-14 in the plant remain?
Using a half-life model
Half-Example
Try page 136: 3 & 4
Guided Practice Page
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