Students in a psychology class took a fi nal examination.

Chapter 3, Problem 48

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Students in a psychology class took a fi nal examination. As part of an experiment to see how much of the course content they remembered over time, they took equivalent forms of the exam in monthly intervals thereafter. The average score, f(t),for the group after t months is modeled by the function f(t) = 76 - 18 log(t + 1), where 0 t 12. a. What was the average score when the exam was fi rst given? b. What was the average score after 2 months? 4 months? 6 months? 8 months? one year? c. Use the results from parts (a) and (b) to graph f. Describe what the shape of the graph indicates in terms of the material retained by the students