Infections seldom start with a single bacterium. Suppose that you cut yourself on a rusty nail that puts 25
bacteria cells into the wound. Suppose a to that those bacteria divide in two after every quarter of an hour.
a. Make and record a guess of how many bacteria you think would be present in the cut after 8 hours
(32 quarter-hours) if the infection continues to spread as predicted. (Assume that your body does
not fight off the infection and you do not apply medication.) Then answer the following questions to
check your ability to estimate the rate of exponential growth.