A colony of bacteria is growing exponentially according to the function below, where t is in hours. What will the approximate number of bacteria be after 8 hours?

B (t) = 4*e^0.8t

A. 2407

B. 205,968

C. 602

D. 4,289,241

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Maleah

13 November, 01:14

A colony of bacteria is growing exponentially according to the function below, where t is in hours. What will the approximate number of bacteria be after 8 hours?

B (t) = 4*e^0.8t

A. 2407

B. 205,968

C. 602

D. 4,289,241

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Isla · Answer 1

All you have to do here is to express t=8 in function that is given and calculate B (t=8)

B (t=8) = 4 * e^ (0.8*8) = 2407.37

if we round it we get that answer is A.

A colony of bacteria is growing exponentially according to the function below, where t is in hours. What will the approximate number of bacteria be after 8 hours?B (t) = 4*e^0.8tA. 2407B. 205,968C. 602D. 4,289,241

A colony of bacteria is growing exponentially according to the function below, where t is in hours. What will the approximate number of bacteria be after 8 hours?

B (t) = 4*e^0.8t

A. 2407

B. 205,968

C. 602

D. 4,289,241