The rate at which a quantity M of a certain radioactive substance decays is proportional to the amount of the substance present at a given time. Which of the following is a differential equation that could describe this relationship? 1. dM/dt = -3.72 t^2
2. dM/dt = -0.11M
3. dM/dt = 0.08 t^2
4. dM/dt = 1.2M

X> -2 is the simplified version.

Period is the time it takes for one “cycle” to complete. in the parent sine function, period is 2*pi since sin(0) = 0, sin(pi/2) = 1, sin(pi) = 0, sin(3pi/2) = -1, and sin(2pi) = 0. at that point, the sequence repeats itself. i’m not sure if your graph is similar to the sine function since you didn’t provide a picture, but you can find the period by looking at a graph.