Logarithms: Bacterial Growth
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Formula: Bacterial Growth Formula
  
Given: There are 20 cells of a bacillus megaterium colony.
This colony has a double rate of 25 minutes within an optimum medium.
  
Find:  Use the formula above to calculate the time it would take for the given colony to grow to 800000 cells within an optimum medium. Calculate the solution for 't' to the nearest tenth using logarithms.
  
Solution:   t = minutes