Answer:
Olga's mistake was in Step 3 because she divided the entire equation by 3 instead of dividing it by 1/3.
The equation would be y = 25x + 50
In order to find this equation, we need to know how much the gift from her grandparents was. To do so, we have to find out how much she's saved from dog walking.
Since she saves $25 a month for 7 months, we can find the total amount as:
25*7 = 175
Then we can subtract that from the total she has saved to find the amount for the gift.
225 - 175 = 50
Finally, we put the amount per month in the equation with the gift as the y intercept to create the equation above.
Answer:
- P(t) = 100·2.3^t
- 529 after 2 hours
- 441 per hour, rate of growth at 2 hours
- 5.5 hours to reach 10,000
Step-by-step explanation:
It often works well to write an exponential expression as ...
value = (initial value)×(growth factor)^(t/(growth period))
(a) Here, the growth factor for the bacteria is given as 230/100 = 2.3 in a period of 1 hour. The initial number is 100, so we can write the pupulation function as ...
P(t) = 100·2.3^t
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(b) P(2) = 100·2.3^2 = 529 . . . number after 2 hours
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(c) P'(t) = ln(2.3)P(t) ≈ 83.2909·2.3^t
P'(2) = 83.2909·2.3^2 ≈ 441 . . . bacteria per hour
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(d) We want to find t such that ...
P(t) = 10000
100·2.3^t = 10000 . . . substitute for P(t)
2.3^t = 100 . . . . . . . . divide by 100
t·log(2.3) = log(100)
t = 2/log(2.3) ≈ 5.5 . . . hours until the population reaches 10,000