Bacteria are the most common example of exponential growth. In this task, you will choose an hourly growth rate between 2 and 10 for some bacteria.

Question

Select a number between 2 and 10 to represent the hourly growth rate of a certain bacteria.
For example, selecting the number 8 would mean that the amount of bacteria will be 8 times greater after every hour
My bacteria will increase ____ times every hour.

Answer 1

My bacteria will increase 4 times every hour.