The Federal Helium Reserve held about 16 billion cubic feet of helium in 2010 and is being

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The Federal Helium Reserve held about 16 billion cubic feet of helium in 2010 and is being depleted by about 2.1 billion cubic feet each year.

a. Give a linear equation for the remaining federal helium reserves, R, in terms of t, the number of years since 2010.

b. In 2015, what will the helium reserves be?

c. If the rate of depletion doesn’t change, in what year will the Federal Helium Reserve be depleted?

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Precalculus

ISBN: 9781938168345

1st Edition

Authors: Jay Abramson

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