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Given information

Given that a bacteria culture grows with a constant relative growth rate,

  • The number of bacteria after hours was  and  after  hours.
  • The initial size of the culture was .
  • And the relative growth rate is  .

Step-by-step explanation

Step 1.

Let  be the population of bacteria at time  hours.

Given the initial size of the culture was , that is .  

Given that the relative growth rate is  .

Therefore, .  

 

 

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