Question

3. The growth rate of Escherichia coli, a common bacterium found in the human intestine, is proportional to its size. Under ideal laboratory conditions, when this bacterium is grown in a nutrient broth medium, the number of cells in a culture doubles approximately every 20 min. a. If the initial population is 10, determine the function Q(t) that expresses the growth of the number of cells of this bacterium as a function of time t (in minutes). Q(t)=________ b. If the initial cell population were 100, what is our model? Q(t)=__________

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