r is the growth or decay rate It is positive for growth and

Last updated: 12/13/2023

r is the growth or decay rate It is positive for growth and negative for decay Growth and decay problems can deal with money interest compounded continuously bacteria growth radioactive decay population growth etc So A t can represent any of these depending on the problem Practice The growth of a certain bacteria population can be modeled by the function A t 350e0 0796t where A t is the number of bacteria and t represents the time in minutes a What is the initial number of bacteria 350 round to the nearest whole number of bacteria b What is the number of bacteria after 20 minutes 1720 round to the nearest whole number of bacteria c How long will it take for the number of bacteria to double least 3 decimal places your answer must be accurate to at