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MCR3U Unit 3: Exponential Functions Assignment - THINKING & INQUIRY

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THINKING & INQUIRY (7 marks)

1. An employee takes a pizza out of a 220°C oven and puts it on the table for pick up. The pizza starts to
cool down 50% every 10 minutes, but stays above the room temperature of 20°C.

a) Write an equation that models the temperature of the pizza immediately after it is taken out of the
oven. (Hint: There is a horizontal asymptote at 20°C) [ /2T/I]
𝑃(𝑡) = 200 · 0. 5 + 20
𝑡
10
✅
𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑃 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑖𝑧𝑧𝑎 𝑖𝑛 𝑑𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑒𝑠 𝐶𝑒𝑙𝑠𝑖𝑢𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑠. ✅
b) What is the temperature of the pizza, rounded to the nearest degree, when the customer picks it up 15
minutes after it was taken out of the oven? [ /2T/I]
𝐿𝑒𝑡 𝑡 = 15
15
10
𝑃(0) = 200 · 0. 5 + 20
1.5
𝑃(0) = 200 · 0. 5 + 20
𝑃(0) ≈ 200 · 0. 35355 + 20 ✅
𝑃(0) ≈ 90. 71068
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑒𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑖𝑧𝑧𝑎 𝑖𝑠 91°𝐶. ✅
c) How much time should the customer wait, after they picked up the pizza, before eating it at a safe
temperature of 45°C? [ /3T/I]
𝐿𝑒𝑡 𝑃(𝑡) = 45
45 = 200 · 0. 5 10 + 20
𝑡

𝑡
✅
10
25 = 200 · 0. 5
𝑡
25 1 10

200
= 2
1 1
8
= 𝑡/10

✅
2
𝑡
10
8 =2
𝑡
3 10
2 =2
𝑡
3 = 10
𝑡 = 30

✅
𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑒𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑖𝑧𝑧𝑎 30 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑟
15 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑖𝑧𝑧𝑎.

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