What types of numbers fall between whole numbers?

Which of the following expressions are equivalent ?

Aquantity with an initial value of 3900 decays exponentially at a rate of 35% every hour. what is the value of the quantity after 0.5 days, to the nearest hundredth?

Sanya noticed that the temperature was falling at a steady rate of 1.4 degrees every hour from the time that she first checked her outdoor thermometer. by 6 a.m., the temperature had fallen 21 degrees. which expression can you use to find how many hours earlier she had first checked the thermometer?