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Some quantities decrease by a fixed proportion (not fixed amount) in each time period. Typical examples used in school mathematics are depreciation or radioactive decay.
The value of an asset (often a car) is assumed to lose x% of its value every year. That is, at the end of each year, its value is (1-x/100) times what it was a year earlier. Similarly, radioactive substances lose y% of their mass through nuclear decay in each time period.
The factor (1-x/100) is known as the decay factor.
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Factor of 4/7^x?
0.5714
What factor caused the Northeast to be called the Rustbelt?
Lack of improvements caused factories to decay.
What word can you use besides factor as in Greatest Common Factor?
divisor
What does a square factor mean?
A factor that is a square number. 16 is a square factor of 32.
What is the rime factor of 37?
If you mean prime factor, it's 37.
What is decay factor?
The constant factor that each value in an exponential decay pattern is multiplied by the next value. The decay factor is the base in an exponential decay equation. for example, in the equation A= 64(0.5^n), where A is he area of a ballot and the n is the number of cuts, the decay factor is 0.5.
How do you tell if its exponential growth or decay?
Exponential growth has a growth/decay factor (or percentage decimal) greater than 1. Decay has a decay factor less than 1.
How do you find the decay factor?
To find the decay factor, you need to know the formula y=ab^x where "a" is the initial amount and "b" the growth or decay factor. It is a growth factor if the number next to "a" is bigger than 1, b>1, and it is usually in (). For example y=12(1.3)^x notice that (1.3) is bigger than 1 so it is a growth factor. The decay factor is "b" the same as growth factor but only that b
What does decay factor means in math terms?
leave
How do you get the decay factor from the decay rate?
If we have y=a(b)^t as the equation then take b from this equation case !: If b <1 then b=1-r r=1-b this r is the decay factor case 2:If b >1 then b=1+r r=b-1 this is the growth factor
Can you give me a sentence for the word decay?
The dead deer started to decay.
What do allaya decay mean?
allaya decay is a person name
A factor that results in the decay of long-term memory is?
lack of use
What is the word factor mean in math?
A factor is a number or quantity that when multiplied with another produces a given number or expression.
What does the word factor tree mean?
A factor tree is a notation of the process of finding the prime factorization of a given number.
What did the word ''putrefaction'' mean in regards to its usage by medieval alchemists?
Putrefactio meant decay. The alchemists believed in breaking down matter to it's base elements, either through decay of by using acid.
What does the word factor mean in science?
Factor just means a component, or a part.For example temperature is one factor in rainfall, and the air humidity is another.
