A Certain Bacterial Colony Was Observed for Several Hours and the Following

question 28

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A certain bacterial colony was observed for several hours and the following conditions were reported. Let be the number of bacteria present after t hours. There were 1000 bacteria after 5 hours. The growth rate was never negative and never exceeded 100 per hour. The growth rate was decreasing for the first 5 hours. At 7 hours, the growth rate was zero.
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