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Exponential Population Growth

Bacterial culture

Problem 1-Calculate the number of bacteria in a culture at a given time

  1. How many bacteria are present after 51 hours if a culture is inoculated with 1 bacterium? Use the model, N(t) = Nokt, and assume the population doubles every 3 hours. (N(t) is the population size at time t and k is a constant.)


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Biochemistry