Sunday, November 15, 2015

Red Blood Cell project- exponential decay

My presentation is on the amount of red blood cells that die off in a 4 month period.  Every 4 months the body reproduces new cells to compensate for the ones that have died.  So I am finding the rate of exponential decay of the cells that dies over the four month period when the body has 30 trillion.  The rate of decay for the cells is 22.8%.  The equation is y=30 trillion(1-.228)t.  I have discovered that since we have so many blood cells, and they decay as such a large rate our body must produce 684,000,000,000 blood cells every 4 months.

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