SOLUTION: A pharmaceutical company makes a vaccine-producing bacterium that grows at a rate of 1.6% per hour. How many units of this organism must the company have initially to have 1000 uni

Question 1071458: A pharmaceutical company makes a vaccine-producing bacterium that grows at a rate of 1.6% per hour. How many units of this organism must the company have initially to have 1000 units after 5 days?
Round to the nearest unit.
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
1 unit makes 1.016 units after days.

Growth Model, for time t in days, p initial units

Let y=1000 and t=5;
solve for p.
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