Question
Salmonella bacteria, found on almost all chicken and eggs,grow rapidly in a nice warm place. If just a few hundredbacteria are left on the cutting board when a chicken is cut up,and they get into a potato salad, the population beginscompounding. suppose the number present in the potato saladafter x is given by
f(x) = 500 x 2^3x
a) if the potato salad is left out on the table, how manybacteria are present 1 hour later?
b. how many were present initially?
c. how ofter do the bacteria double?
d. how quickly will the number of bacteria increase to32,000?
f(x) = 500 x 2^3x
a) if the potato salad is left out on the table, how manybacteria are present 1 hour later?
b. how many were present initially?
c. how ofter do the bacteria double?
d. how quickly will the number of bacteria increase to32,000?
Answers
Steve
no ideas on any of the questions? They gave you the function, so things should just fall right out.