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Choose one of the following two assignments to complete this week. Do not do both assignments. Identify your assignment choice in the title of your submission.

Option #1: Working with Radioactive Material

As a scientist, you study 650 grams of a radioactive material for seven months and you have obtained the following data:

Note that you are asked to use a graphing utility in this assignment. A recommended online utility ishttps://www.desmos.com/calculator. It allows graphing and then copying and posting into a Word document.

• Using a graphing utility, draw a scatter diagram with month and weight as your variables.
• Using a graphing utility, build an exponential model from the data.
• Express the weight as the function of months.
• Graph the exponential function in the scatter diagram.
• Interpret the constant parameters of this function.
• Determine the half-life of the radioactive material.
• How much radioactive material will be left after 30 months?
• When will you have 40 grams of this radioactive material?

Requirements:

1. Paper must be written in 3rd person.
2. Your paper should be 4-5 pages in length (counting the title page and references page) and cite and integrate at least one credible outside source. The CSU-Global Library is a great place to find resources. Your textbook is a credible resource.
3. Include a title page, introduction, body, conclusion, and a reference page.
4. The introduction should describe or summarize the topic or problem. It might discuss the importance of the topic or how it affects you or society as a whole, or it might discuss or describe the unique terminology associated with the topic.
5. The body of your paper should answer the questions posed in the problem. Explain how you approached and answered the question or solved the problem, and, for each question, show all steps involved. Be sure this is in paragraph format, not numbered answers like a homework assignment.
6. The conclusion should summarize your thoughts about what you have determined from the data and your analysis, often with a broader personal or societal perspective in mind. Nothing new should be introduced in the conclusion that was not previously discussed in the body paragraphs.
7. Include any tables of data or calculations, calculated values, and/or graphs associated with this problem in the body of your assignment.
8. Document formatting, citations, and style should conform to the CSU-Global Virtual Library CSU-Global Guide to Writing and APA: Introduction. A short summary containing much that you need to know about paper formatting, citations, and references is contained in theNew Sample APA Paper. In addition, information in the CSU-Global Virtual Library under the Writing Center/APA Resources tab has many helpful areas (Writing Center, Writing Tips, Template & Examples/Papers & Essays, and others).