A desalinization process is eliminating 20% of the salt from seawater every 10 minutes. There are initially 550 g of salt in 10 liters of water. Find an exponential function for A, the grams of salt in the 10 liters of seawater t minutes after the process has begun. (See Example 5 in this section.) A =        Use the model to predict the amount of salt (in grams) in the seawater after 35 minutes. Round to the nearest whole number.

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A desalinization process is eliminating 20% of the salt from seawater every 10 minutes. There are initially 550 g of salt in 10 liters of water. Find an exponential function for A, the grams of salt in the 10 liters of seawater t minutes after the process has begun. (See Example 5 in this section.)
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Use the model to predict the amount of salt (in grams) in the seawater after 35 minutes. Round to the nearest whole number.
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