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Old 03-04-2019, 02:03 AM
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^ Looked into that some more. Really good thing to keep in mind, ty.


So, tonight I learned I don't know how to do logarithms anymore.


What is the generation time of a bacterial population that increases from 10,000 to 10,000,000 cells in four hours of growth?



a = number of bacteria at the beginning of a time interval. A = number of bacteria at the end of the time interval


G= T
3.3log a/A


G= T
3.3log 10^7/10^4


G = 240 mins
3.3 x 3


G = 24 mins




Ok. NM. Pretty sure in the past I'd do logarithms by asking lab partner what they got, but it just looks like enter number and press button ??? answer.