Mike heats some soup to 216° F. In order to eat the soup, he decides to let the soup cool in his kitchen. The following function represents the temperature of the soup, located in the kitchen with the air temperature of 73° F, after x minutes, where k is the constant rate at which the soup is cooling.

If the temperature of the soup is 180° F after 8 minutes, then what is the approximate constant rate of cooling?

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i will answer your question though.

i never tried church's

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step-by-step explanation:

do 6-10=

if u need it to be negative.

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step-by-step explanation:

we can analyze the pattern at which the terms increase. let us denote , , , so that we can call

note the following:

the pattern: to get the next term value, we just add the next term number (e.g. 1st, 2nd, to the previous term value (term values are the given numbers in the question, 1, 3, 6, 10, 15,

from , to get to , we add

from , to get to , we add

etc.

we need to form a recursive formula, a formula that has the next term as a function of the previous term. so a possible recursive formula can be

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