Carbon-141414 is an element that loses about 10\%10%10, percent of its mass every millennium (i. e., 100010001000 years). A sample of Carbon-141414 has 600600600 grams. Which graph shows the sample's mass yyy (in grams) after xxx millennia?

Carbon-14 loses around 10% ( 0.1 in decimal form) of its mass, after one millennium.

Then if we start with a mass A of Carbon-14, after one millennium we will have a mass equal to:

A - A*0.1 = A*(0.9)

After another millennium, we will have a mass equal to:

A*(0.9) - A*(0.9)*0.1 = A*(0.9)^2

And so on, this is an exponential decay.

We already can see the pattern here, after x millenniums, the mass of carbon-14 will be:

M(x) = A*(0.9)^x

Now, in this problem we have 600 grams of carbon-14, then the equation for the mass will be:

y = M(x) = 600g*(0.9)^x

And the graph of this equation is shown below.

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