A plant’s size decreases by 5% each week due to drought conditions. If the plant is 200 cm tall, how tall will it be after 3 weeks?
1. Use the formula for exponential decay:
The formula to calculate the value of a quantity after time periods with a decay rate (expressed as a decimal) starting from an initial value is .
In this case:
The initial height of the plant is cm.
The decay rate is , which in decimal form is .
The number of weeks is .
2. Substitute the values into the formula:
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