Your equation for exponential growth is of the form

, where a is the initial or starting value and b is the multiplier. DO NOT EVER EVER MULTIPLY A TIMES B AND THEN RAISE IT TO THE X POWER! This is not the way you do these. A and B remain separate. In our situation, we have an equation that looks like this

. That's part a. Now we need to find how many bacteria are on it 5 hours later, which will be subbed in for our x in the equation.

. Raise 4 to the 5th power first to get 1024, then multiply that by 8 to get a total of 8192 bacteria on your cookie 5 hours later. That's part b. Now for part c, you're going to have to use some of the properties of logs to solve this. This time they're asking for the time it takes to get 100,000 bacteria on the cookie, which is your x value. You need to get it out from being an exponent to being a "regular" variable we can solve for. So our equation now uses the number of bacteria as our y:

. Begin by dividing both sides by 8 to get rid of it on the right:

. Now take the log of both sides to bring down that x:

, and using the power property we have log(12,500) = x log(4). Now we will divide both sides by log(4) to isolate the x and do the work on our calculator to find that x= 6.80. In other words, it will take just short of 7 hours for your cookie to have 100,000 bacteria on it. I'd suggest cafeteria food, but that might kill you quicker!
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Loosely, "varies inversely" means that as one quantity increases, the other decreases. Specifically, if x and y vary inversely, then y = k/x where k is some constant (a particular number).
Another way to write that relationship is xy = k. To find the value of k for this problem, you need a numbers for x and y that go together.
Suppose x = number of children and y = number of candies (it doesn't matter what order these go in as long as you keep track!).
"When 12 children are present, 140 pieces of candy are consumed." So when x = 12, the value of y = 140.
xy = k
(12)(140) = k
1680 = k
Now, when x = 8 children,
8y = 1680
y = 210
After the tax and the tip are counted, we conclude that each friend must pay $30.
<h3>How much should each person pay?</h3>
We know that the meal cost is $72.50.
Now, there is a 6.75% sales tax and a 15% tip on the waiter (we assume that the tip is based on the total meal cost, after the tax is applied).
Then the total meal cost is:
C = $72.50*( 1 + 6.75%/100%) = $72.50*(1 + 0.0675) = $77.39
Now we also need to add the tip, which is a 15% of that, so the total cost with the tip included is:
C' = $77.39*(1 + 15%/100%) = $88.998 = $90
(Where we rounded up).
Then, if there are 3 friends, each one must pay:
$90/3 = $30
Each friend must pay $30.
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