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Please help me with this puzzle given to me by my calculus professor:

Suppose that you come into your professor's office to ask some
questions shortly before 9:00 a.m. on Friday. You find him lying on
the floor of his office in a pool of chalk dust, dead. You quickly
call the police and their investigators take several measurements over
the next hour, including:

1) the body temperature at 9:00 a.m. - 80 degrees
2) the body temperature at 10:00 a.m. - 78 degrees
3) room temperature - 70 degrees (constant)

You quickly realize that the police believe you to be a prime suspect,
so you need an alibi. You know that you were studying until midnight,
but you aren't sure if that is enough information. You need to know
the time of death!

Determine the time of death by creating an exponential model. Use the
following statement: the difference between body temperature and room
temperature changes at a rate proportional to that difference. How
good is your alibi?

The only thing I have figured to do is use the exponential formula
y = Ce^kt, but I'm not sure which numbers to plug in and what
information that will give me. Please help!
    
 

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