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6.7 Exercise 60

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Use this scenario: A tumor is injected with 0.5 0.5 grams of Iodine-125, which has a decay rate of 1.15% 1.15% per day.

A research student is working with a culture of bacteria that doubles in size every twenty minutes. The initial population count was 1350 1350 bacteria. Rounding to five decimal places, write an exponential equation representing this situation. To the nearest whole number, what is the population size after 3 3 hours?

OpenStax Algebra and Trigonometry 2e, 6.7 Exponential and Logarithmic Models, exercise 60

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