Mathematics

Jaida Stevenson

15 November, 10:01

After some food is introduced into a petri dish containing bacteria, the number of bacteria in the dish increases

rapidly.

The relationship between the elapsed time, t, in seconds, since the food was introduced, and the total number of

bacteria, N (t), is modeled by the following function:

N (t) = 1000 - 8

Complete the following sentence about the rate of change of the bacterial culture.

Round your answer to two decimal places.

The number of bacteria is doubled every

seconds.