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After exposure to a pesticide, the number of ants in a colony exponentially decreases by 16% every day. If the initial size of the ant colony was 80 thousand ants, which one of the following functions models the number of ants, in thousands, after x days?

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Description: After exposure to a pesticide, the number of ants in a colony exponentially decreases by 16% every day. If the initial size of the ant colony was 80 thousand ants, which one of the following functions models the number of ants, in thousands, after x days?

          After exposure to a pesticide, the number of ants in a colony exponentially decreases by 16% every day. If the initial size of the ant colony was 80 thousand ants, which one of the following functions models the number of ants, in thousands, after x days?

After exposure to a pesticide, the number of ants in a colony exponentially decreases by 16% every day. If the initial size of the ant colony was 80 thousand ants, which one of the following functions models the number of ants, in thousands, after x days?

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Elementary and Intermediate Algebra

Alan S. Tussy, R. David Gustafson 5th Edition

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After exposure to a pesticide, the number of ants in a colony exponentially decreases by 16% every day. If the initial size of the ant colony was 80 thousand ants, which one of the following functions models the number of ants, in thousands, after x days? After exposure to a pesticide,the number of ants in a colony exponentially decreases by 16% every day.If the initial size of the ant colony was 80 thousand ants,which one of the following functions models the number of ants,in thousands,after x days?