Twinlakes on the shelf of a covenience store lose their fresh tastines over time. we say that the taste quality is 1 when the twinkies are first put on the shelf at the store, and that the quality of tastiness declined according to the function q(t)=0.85^t. graph this function on a graphing calculator, and determine when the taste will be half of its original value?

The graph is shown below.

The time to make the taste to half is 4.265 s.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

Initial value of the taste is,

Therefore, the quality of taste over time 't' is given as:

Now, when the taste reduces to half,

Therefore,

Taking natural log on both the sides, we get:

Therefore, the time to make the taste to half is 4.265 s.

the answer is:

mean: 6

mad: 2.14