Two strains of bacteria are growing in separate Petri dishes. Initially, there are 300 Strain A bacteria and, from a prior experiment, you know that the population should double every 20 minutes. Having never worked with Strain B before, you monitor its growth over the first hour and notice that there are 200 bacteria after 30 minutes and 600 bacteria after 1 hour. Let t be the number of hours that have passed since the two populations of bacteria start growing. Express the number of strain A bacteria as a function of tt. Note: Your answer should be of the form PA(t)=Ce^(bt) PA(t)=Ce^(bt( for some numbers C and b. From your observations, you know that the population of Strain B bacteria after tt hours can be modelled by

Two strains of bacteria are growing in separate Petri dishes. Initially, there are 300 Strain A bacteria and, from a prior experiment, you know that the population should double every 20 minutes. Having never worked with Strain B before, you monitor its growth over the first hour and notice that there are 200 bacteria after 30 minutes and 600 bacteria after 1 hour. Let t be the number of hours that have passed since the two populations of bacteria start growing. Express the number of strain A bacteria as a function of tt. Note: Your answer should be of the form PA(t)=Ce^(bt) PA(t)=Ce^(bt( for some numbers C and b. From your observations, you know that the population of Strain B bacteria after tt hours can be modelled by

Algebra & Trigonometry with Analytic Geometry

13th Edition

ISBN:9781133382119

Author:Swokowski

Publisher:Swokowski

Chapter4: Polynomial And Rational Functions

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 5T

See similar textbooks