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A medical researcher finds a strain of bacteria that has cause infections in several patients. At time 0 hours, the researcher placed 100 bacteria on an agar plate to grow. Assuming the bacteria are growing exponentially, at a growth rate of 0.3, what is the population predicted after 5 hours?

Formula for Exponential Growth:
N=N0e^rt

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500 bacteria

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