An antibiotic is introduced into a colony of 12,000 bacteria

Last updated: 8/7/2022

An antibiotic is introduced into a colony of 12,000 bacteria during a laboratory experiment. The function below can be used to model the number of bacteria in the colony after t minutes. b(t) = 12,000(0.851)^(t/10) Which value is closest to the amount of time in minutes needed for the population of the colony to drop to 8,000 bacteria? F) 11 minutes G) 25 minutes G) 25 minutes H) 8 minutes J) 42 minutes