A bacteria culture starts with 2,000 bacteria and doubles in size every 3 hours. How do you find an exponential model for the size of the culture as a function of time t in hours?
1 Answer
Jul 1, 2017
Explanation:
You know that its inital value is 2000, so it must be multiples of 2000. You also know it doubles every term, so it must be multiplied by 2, however, it is every 3 hours and you you want the function for every hour, so the power (t) must be divided by 3.
