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Element x decays radioactively with a half life of 8 minutes. if there are 450 grams of element x, how long, to the nearest tenth of a minute, would it take the element to decay to 37 grams?

On new year's day, the average temperature of a city is 5.7 degrees celsius. but for new year's day 2012, the temperature was 9.8 degrees below the average. i) if a represents the average temperature on new year's day and 7 represents the temperature on new year's day 2012, what formula accurately relates the two values together? ii) what was the temperature on new year's day 2012? dt a 0.8 ii) - 4 1 degrees celsius da-t-98 ii) 59 degrees celsius 1) 7 = -9,8 11) 59 degrees celsius ii) l degrees celsius

On a cm grid, point p has coordinates (3,-1) and point q has coordinates (-5,6) calculate the shortest distance between p and q give your answer to 1 decimal place