Wednesday, February 5, 2014

A type of bacteria has an exponential grow rate at 70% every hour, what is the number of bacteria after 10 hr, 1 day and 3 days.

We'll write the relation that allows to determine the
population of bacteria, at specific time.


Population =
Initial Population*(1+growth percentage)^time period in
hours.


In this case, we'll
have:


Population =
5*(1+70/100)^n


Population =
5*[(100+70)/100]^n


Population =
5*(1.7)^n


We'll calculate the population in 10
hours:


Population =
5*(1.7)^10


Population =
5*201.5993900449


We'll calculate the population in 1 day
= 24 hours:


Population =
5*(1.7)^24


We'll calculate the population in 3 days = 3*24
hours:


Population =
5*(1.7)^72


Population(10 hours) =
5*(1.7)^10


Population(1 day) =
5*(1.7)^24


Population
(3days) = 5*(1.7)^72

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