Question

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A certain bacteria population obeys the population growth law. Find the growth constant if the population at time t=t1 is 2 and the population at time t=t2 is 10.

Answer 1

I'm not sure if this is doubling population or not

Answer 2

refer to this site

http://www.regentsprep.org/regents/math/algebra/AE7/ExpDecayL.htm

Answer 3

a) \[a) r=\ln(5)/(t2-t1)\]

Answer 4

ok but how do you find r?

Answer 5

can't you do transformation of formulas?

Answer 6

derive r from the equation