PS: Please answer a) correctly. A thermometer is taken from a room where the temperature is 21 C to the outdoors, where the temperature is 2 C. After one minute the thermometer reads 16 C. a) What will the reading on the thermometer be after 4 more minutes?

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PS: Please answer a) correctly.

A thermometer is taken from a room where the temperature is 21 C to the outdoors, where the temperature is 2 C. After one minute the thermometer reads 16 C.

a) What will the reading on the thermometer be after 4 more minutes?

b) When will the thermometer read 3 C? 

9.64 mins after it was taken to the outdoors.

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