Salmonella bacteria, found on almost all chicken and eggs, grow rapidly in a nice warm place. If

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Salmonella bacteria, found on almost all chicken and eggs, grow rapidly in a nice warm place. If just a few hundred bacteria are left on the cutting board when a chicken is cut up, and they get into the potato salad, the population begins compounding. Suppose the number present in the potato salad after x hours is given by

a. If the potato salad is left out on the table, how many bacteria are present 1 hour later?

b. How many were present initially?

c. How often do the bacteria double?

d. How quickly will the number of bacteria increase to 32,000?

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Calculus With Applications

ISBN: 9780321831101

10th Edition

Authors: Margaret L Lial, Raymond N Greenwell, Nathan P Ritchey

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