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A bacteria culture starts with 1,000 bacteria and doubles in size every 2 hours. Find an exponential model for the size of the culture as a function of time t in hours.
bobpursley
P= 1000e^(.692*t/2)
so, at t=4hrs, 1000e^2*.692=4000

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