Engineering Board Exam Reviewer · Applications: Growth and Decay · easy
A bacterial culture grows exponentially from 500 to 2000 cells in 6 hours. How many cells are there after 9 hours?
- 4000
- 2750
- 4500
- 8000
Answer
A. 4000
Solution
N=500ekt and e6k=4 ek=41/6. At t=9: N=500·49/6=500·8=4000 cells.
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