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LAST QUESTION I NEED HELP WITH!!! THANKS<3

A radioactive substance decays at a rate of 2% per day. If there are 50 grams of the
substance left after 34 days, how much was there at the beginning of the 34 days?
Round to two decimal places.

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sqdancefan

Answer:

  99.38 grams

Step-by-step explanation:

The given information can be translated to the exponential function ...

  q = 50·0.98^(t -34) . . . . . t in days

Then for t=0, we have ...

  q = 50·0.98^(-34) ≈ 99.38 . . . . grams