Homework Help: Math- Alg 2

Posted by Karen on Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 10:52pm.

A colony of bacteria is growing exponentially according to the function below, where T is in hours. How many bacteria are there after 7 hours?
B(T)= 4*e^(0.8)T

Math- Alg 2 - Anonymous, Thursday, January 26, 2012 at 10:55pm
B(T)=4*e^(0.8)(7)
7 for T
B(T)=62.3151
(plugged the equation into a graphing calculator)
Math- Alg 2 - Ryan Douglas, Friday, January 11, 2013 at 7:26pm
That is completely wrong. I'm sure you didn't type the equation in right or something. The correct answer is 1081-1082 bacteria.

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