The bacteria in a certain culture triples every 7.7 hours. the culture has 6,500 bacteria at the start. how many bacteria will the culture contain after 4 hours?

11505 bacteria

Step-by-step explanation:

Given :

The bacteria in a certain culture triples every 7.7 hours. The culture has 6,500 bacteria at the start .

As per the  exponential growth , we have

Here ,

is starting number of bacteria

R is rate at which number of bacteria increases

T is time elapsed

P is one period of rate

On putting these values in formula , we get

So, the culture will contain 11505 bacteria after four hours .

part 1 answer = 8

part 2 answer = 72

step-by-step explanation:

part 1 explanation = add all of the numbers, then divide by how many numbers you have. so, 200/25 = 8.

part 2 explanation = not gonna lie, this is hard to explain, so just google how to do it.