1 Nov 2021
Problem 2a
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Section 7.4: Exponential Growth and Decay
Chapter 7: Differential Equations
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1 Nov 2021
Given information
Given that in every minutes, a bacterial cell in a nutrient-broth medium divides into two cells.
A culture's starting population is cells
Calculate the relative growth rate
Step-by-step explanation
Step 1.
Observe that the relative growth rate is given by
Given that the culture's starting population is cells, that is
Therefore, at , the population is given by