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A population of bacteria has exponential growth and will double after 10 hours. Find the growth rate to the nearest hundredth.
9 years ago

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Damon
p = Pi e^kt
2 = e^10 k

ln 2 = 10 k

.693 = 10 k

k = .0693
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