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Title: A colony of bacteria used to clean up an oil spill grows exponentially at the rate of 3% per ...
Post by: 5seal on Mar 14, 2017
A colony of bacteria used to clean up an oil spill grows exponentially  at the rate of 2% per minute.

By how many times will it have increased after 6 h?


Title: Re: A colony of bacteria used to clean up an oil spill grows exponentially at the rate of 3% per ...
Post by: bio_man on Mar 27, 2017
I have solved this problem for you below!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmoH3EZ2e4M


Title: Re: A colony of bacteria used to clean up an oil spill grows exponentially at the rate of 3% per ...
Post by: nostalgicGirl on Mar 28, 2017
It is an exponential growth problem y=ae^nt
n=> 2% => 0.02
t => 6 => 6*60 => 360

by using scientific calculator exponential is found to be

Y= 1339.4

So, after six hours the population of bacteria is grown 1339.4 times at the rate of 2%


Title: Re: A colony of bacteria used to clean up an oil spill grows exponentially at the rate of 3% per ...
Post by: bio_man on Mar 28, 2017
Thanks ^^