SOLUTION: Please help me with this every answer I have tried is wrong. A bacteria culture starts with 1000 bacteria and grows at a rate proportional to its size. After 3 hours there will

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Question 1025183: Please help me with this every answer I have tried is wrong.
A bacteria culture starts with 1000 bacteria and grows at a rate proportional to its size. After 3 hours there will be 3000 bacteria.
(a) Express the population P after t hours as a function of t.
P(t)=
My answers were 0.366204, P(3)=1000e^0.366204

Answer by robertb(5830)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The proportionality constant is .
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