Engineering Board Exam Reviewer · Applications: Growth and Decay · medium
A bacteria culture grows exponentially and triples in 5 hours. Find the growth constant k in dP/dt=kP.
- 0.2197/hr
- 0.6000/hr
- 0.1099/hr
- 0.4394/hr
Answer
A. 0.2197/hr
Solution
3=e5k k= 3/5 0.2197 per hour.
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