Question

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12. A bacteria culture has 2,000 bacteria. The number of bacteria increases by 5% each hour. How many bacteria are there after 12 hours?

Answer 1

@jim_thompson5910 can you help??

Answer 2

From the word problem, the equation that forms is

y = 2000*(1.05)^x

where
x = number of hours
y = amount of bacteria

Answer 3

plug in x = 12 and tell me what you get for y

Answer 4

y= 3591.7 @jim_thompson5910

Answer 5

2000*(1.05)^12 = 3,591.71265204427

it looks good

so roughly 3,591 bacteria

Answer 6

Okay thanks!