911! … I need some help! …

Welcome to the Boling Bombshell Hint Line!!!!!

 

Looking for help on the cooling corpse? …. Here’s a few questions to guide you to a solution …

 

a)       What numerical Data do you know?

                   Yeah, we are a math class.  So what numbers did Agent 008 come up with?  What temperatures (y) did he get and what is the time (x) associated with each of those temperatures?

 

b)      What is the hottest possible temperature that the body could get to?

                   I mean, if he left to corpse in that spring for 20 days … how hot would it get?  When we deal with exponential functions, that maximum value has a special name …

 

c)       Since I don’t know what time she died at, what should I use as my starting time for the problem?

                   Well, according to the way the information was gathered, when did Agent 008 start his mathematical data … when did he start noting temperatures? … What’s the best value that represents the time when a problem begins?

 

d)      How can I use that equation?

                   Well you should have a few points (x & y values), and an idea of what the value of “b” would be … check your notes! … with a few lines of basic algebra you can figure out the k and m values in the problem …

 

d)      Why do I need to know the temperature of the corpse when The Princess was killed?

                   We can assume that right before the moment of her death, he was ... alive.  And we all know that bodies have a certain temperature.  So why and how do I use this to find out when he died? …. Hmmm … this is an Algebra Class, and we are studying Logarithms.