Question

Bacteria X has a growth rate of 180 % per hour. Some amount of bacteria X are accidentally introduced into some egg salad. Three hours after contamination, there were 35,000 bacteria X in the egg salad.
Find the initial number of bacteria X introduced into the egg salad?
Estimate the number of bacteria in the food 4 hours after contamination?

Answer 1

There were about 6001 bacteria X bring introduced into the egg salad. The number of bacteria in the food 4 hours after contamination is 63000.