Answer:

Explanation:
The growth of a population of bacteria can be represented by exponential growth function,

where,
y = the population of the bacteria after x hours,
x = the number of hours,
a = initial population of bacteria,
r = rate of growth,
At the beginning the number bacteria was 250 and the population of bacteria quadruples every hour i.e rate of growth is 400% or 4 per hour.
Putting all the values,

