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Bacteria is growing in a petri dish. initially, there were 10 bacteria in the dish and they are tripling every 3 minutes. what is an appropriate domain to for the function?

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Domain of a function is the type of parameters it takes as input. The domain of a sine function is angle in either degrees or radians. The function that represents the population growth of the bacteria that is tripling every minute is given by the mathematical expression,


x_(t) = x_(0) * 3^(t),

where, t is time in minutes,
x_(0) is the initial population size, and
x_(t) is the population at time, t.

The domain of this function will be time, t.

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