Lin went hiking on five different weekends. The table shows the elevation changes in feet for each of her five hikes. Fill in the
missing numbers
Initial Elevation
Elevation Change Final Elevation
hike
768
1
-96
672
hike
2
82
20
hike
62
3
- 100
hike
354
4
129
hike
-20
-40
-60
5
Explain what each of the numbers-20, -40, and -60 tells you about
hike 5. What does it mean for the numbers to be negative in this
situation?

The biologist has a second culture to examine. she knows that the population of the culture doubles every 15 minutes. after 1 hour and 15 minutes, her assistant found that 80,000 bacteria were present. a) what was the size of the initial population? b) predict the size of the culture at t=3 hours. what was the size of the population at 40 minutes? explain and justify your answers. c) create a graph of the population as a function of time. find an equation that can be used to predict the size of the population at any time t. d) examine the rate at which the bacteria culture is growing. how fast is the culture growing after 1 hour? after 1.5 hours? after 2 hours? use a time interval of h = 0.01 hours to estimate these rates. interpret these rates in terms of the context of the problem situation. how do these three rates compare?