Salmonella bacteria, found on almost all chicken and eggs,grow rapidly in a nice warm place. If just a few hundredbacteria are left on the cutting board when a chicken is cut up,and they get into a potato salad, the population beginscompounding. suppose the number present in the potato saladafter x is given by
f(x) = 500 x 2^3x
a) if the potato salad is left out on the table, how manybacteria are present 1 hour later?
b. how many were present initially?
c. how ofter do the bacteria double?
d. how quickly will the number of bacteria increase to32,000?
1 answer
no ideas on any of the questions? They gave you the function, so things should just fall right out.