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A scientist notes that the population of bacteria in a petri dish doubles every five hours. Which type of function should she use to model the change in total population over time? a. scatter b. quadratic c. exponential d. linear

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Answer:

c. exponential

Explanation:

Let A be the initial value,

New value

A[2^(t/5)]

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