SOLUTION: The growth of a bacterial culture works in an exponential form. If a bacteria culture on a piece of bread starts with 10 000 bacteria and the doubling period is 45 minutes. After h
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Question 1111910: The growth of a bacterial culture works in an exponential form. If a bacteria culture on a piece of bread starts with 10 000 bacteria and the doubling period is 45 minutes. After how many minutes will there be 60 000 bacteria?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39617) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
One doubleing period .
x minutes, ;
If y=60000, find x.
, and you can use calculator or table of common logarithms.
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