At ASU graduation during the festivities, your great aunt br…
At ASU graduation during the festivities, your great aunt brings a potato salad to share. Your auntie put the potato salad on a picnic table in the hot sun at 4:00 pm. With your special training in bacterial population ecology, you estimate the population size of bacteria in this dish to be 1500 cells (E. Coli) at 4:30 pm and 3000 cells at 5:30 pm. Able to replicate in one hour, how many bacteria will be there by 7:30 pm? (two growth cycles after the 5:30 pm count). Select only ONE answer choice. Hint: because this is a population that has just started growing (without an immediate carrying capacity) you should use exponential growth model.
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