Question 1005827
The Number of bacteria in a culture was 1000 initially and tripled every 6 hours. Let t be time in hours since the start of the experiment and B(t) is the number of bacteria in the culture at time t.

How long until there are 5000 bacteria?
<pre>Growth rate: .183102
Function: {{{B(t) = A[o]e^(rt)}}}
{{{5000 = 1000e^(.183102t)}}} -------- Substituting 5,000 for B(t); 1,000 for {{{A[o]}}}, and 0.183102 for r 
Time it takes to accumulate 5,000 bacteria: {{{highlight_green(t= 8.789841)}}} hours