Logarithms: Bacterial Growth
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Formula: Bacterial Growth Formula
  
Given: There are 8 cells of a lactobacillus acidophilus colony.
This colony has a double rate of 1.25 hours within an optimum medium.
  
Find:  Use the formula above to calculate the time it would take for the given colony to grow to 500000 cells within an optimum medium. Calculate the solution for 't' to the nearest tenth using logarithms.
  
Solution:   t = hours