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Subtract the thickness of the known piece from the total thickness.
Because they have different denominators rewrite them to have the same.
9/32 x 2 = 18/64
Now you have 33/64 - 18/64 = 15/64
The other piece is 15/64 inch thick.
We have an exponential with a fractional base and a positive exponent, and a positive sign at front. Each time we multiply a fraction between zero and one by itself it gets smaller. So as x increases we'll go to zero. As x decreases it goes to positive infinity, as negative powers are the reciprocals of positive power.
The left end approaches positive infinity and the right end approaches zero.
<span>Ending Amt = Bgng Amt * e ^-0.03t
In this equation, the "-0.03" is the decay factor or "k"
We can now solve for half-life by this equation:
</span>t = <span>(<span>ln [y(t) ÷ a]<span>)<span> ÷ -k (we can say beginning amount = 200 and ending amount = 100
</span></span></span></span>t = <span>(<span>ln [200 ÷ 100]<span>)<span> ÷ -k
</span></span></span></span>t = <span>(<span>ln [2]<span>)<span> ÷ -k
</span></span></span></span>t = 0.69314718056<span> ÷ --.03
t =</span><span><span><span> 23.1049060187
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about 23 years
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