I am working on a problem about bacteria growing and I used my calculator to find the exponential equation to be y = 10006.06771(1.2297)^x
First it asked how many bacteria would there be after 6 hours which was easy because I just plugged in 6 for x and that was about 34,599 bacteria.
But now the question is how long will it take until there are 100,000 bacteria. I know I need to use my calculator to determine this on a table, but I don't know how.....
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NVM - I think I figured it out - thank you anyway
10006.06771(1.2297)^x = 100000
1.2297^x = 9.993936
x = log9.993936/log1.2297
1.2297^x = 9.993936
x = log9.993936/log1.2297