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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

 

 

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