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Course: Get ready for Algebra 2 > Unit 4

Lesson 7: Exponential growth & decay
Math
Get ready for Algebra 2
Get ready for exponential and logarithmic relationships
Exponential growth & decay
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Writing functions with exponential decay

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Problem

Carbon-14 is an element that loses about 10% of its mass every millennium (i.e., 1000 years). A sample of Carbon-14 has 600 grams.
Write a function that gives the sample's mass in grams, S(t), t millennia from today.
S(t)=