Question

A population of bacteria is growing according to the function below, where t is in hours. How many hours will it take for the population to grow to 5,000 bacteria? B(t) = 20* e^1.5t

Answer 1

250=e^1.5t
so 1.5t=ln250

Answer 2

do I divide the ln250 by the ln 1.5 or just 1.5?

Answer 3

find ln250 first then divide that answer by 1.5

Answer 4

ok, so I get 3.68097

Answer 5

yes?

Answer 6

yep, that is correct

Answer 7

thanks!