Question

Suppose that you place exactly 100 bacteria into a flask containing nutrients for the bacteria and that you find the following data at 37 °C:
TIme (s) number of bacteria
0 100
19 200
38 400
57 800
76 1600


what is the rate order?

What is rate constant?

how many bacteria will be present after 171 mins?

Answer 1

sorry. time is in minutes not seconds

Answer 2

Notice that this doubles every 19 minutes (second or whatever). You can graph these data and you get a straight line which makes it first order. Since it is 1st order you can use
ln(No/N) = kt and solve for k, the rate constant.