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After sitting out of a refrigerator for a while a turkey at

Last updated: 4/26/2023

After sitting out of a refrigerator for a while a turkey at

After sitting out of a refrigerator for a while a turkey at room temperature 68 F is placed into an oven The oven temperature is 315 F Newton s Law of Heating explains that the temperature of the turkey will increase proportionally to the difference between the temperature of the turkey and the temperature of the oven as given by the formula below Ta the temperature surrounding the object To the initial temperature of the object t the time in hours T Ta To Ta e h kt T the temperature of the object after t hours k decay constant The turkey reaches the temperature of 114 F after 2 5 hours Using this information find the value of k to the nearest thousandth Use the resulting equation to determine the Fahrenheit temperature of the turkey to the nearest degree after 5 hours Enter only the final temperature into the input box