You can make your answer more accurate by adjusting TblSet on your calculator. We can use the graph of this function to check our approximation. The graph should look like this algebra Expressor file. Several types of growth can be modeled using Exponential functions. For example, assume that a certain type of bacterial doubles every hour and there are initially 100 organisms.
Lets develop a model for the bacterial growth.
X , where Y is the new amount of bacterial and X is the number of hours later. Let's use this model to solve the following problem. Suppose that the above bacterial will be used in an experiment that allows the bacterial to grow for one day. First we need to fill in our model. Here is part of the Excel spreadsheet I used to check my answer.