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Halflife - Doubling Exponentials

The document contains 8 practice problems related to half-life and exponential growth/decay. The problems involve calculating things like the time it takes for various substances or populations to reach specific amounts based on their doubling/half-life rates, writing exponential decay functions, and finding amounts remaining after a given time period. The document provides space for students to show their work and write their answers.

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Halflife - Doubling Exponentials

The document contains 8 practice problems related to half-life and exponential growth/decay. The problems involve calculating things like the time it takes for various substances or populations to reach specific amounts based on their doubling/half-life rates, writing exponential decay functions, and finding amounts remaining after a given time period. The document provides space for students to show their work and write their answers.

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Half-Life and Doubling Problems


1. Medicine B has a
1 -life of 2.5 hours. When will there be 50 ml left of a 250 ml 2

dosage? _______

2. An investment firm claims that they can double your investment every 3 years. How many years would it take $1,500 to grow to $12,000? _______

3. A certain type of bacteria that grows continuously has a doubling time of three hours and 25 minutes. The initial sample was 2,000 and there are 7,000 now. a. How many hours have passed? _______.

b. Guess how long it will take until there are 1,000,000 bacteria

c. Calculate how long it will take until there are 1,000,000 bacteria

4. A certain medicine has a

1 -life of seven (7) hours. The medicine was administered 2

at 4:00 PM. The medicine needs to be given again when the amount present is between 115 mg and 55 mg. If the initial dosage was 300 ml, between what times should the doctor re-administer the medicine?

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5. Without hunting, the deer population grows continuously and would double every five (5) years. If it started at 370 deer, when will it grow to 6,000? ________

6. A gambler loses half of his money every four (4) hours. He started with $8,000 at 11:00 PM. If the minimum bet is $10.00 to play, at what time will he no longer be able to gamble?

7. Botany: Phosphorus-32 is used to study a plants fertilizer. It has a half-life of 14.3 days. Write the exponential decay function for a 50-mg sample. Find the amount of phosphorus-32 remaining after 84 days.

8. Iodine-131 is used to find leaks in water pipes. It has a half-life of 8.14 days. Write the exponential decay function for a 200-mg sample. Find the amount of iodine-131 remaining after 72 days.

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