An epidemic has hit Minecole City. Its population is declining 34% every hour. In just 3 hours, there are only 25,143 people left in the city. What was the initial population in the city before the epidemic broke out? 69,726
16,595
49,785
69,727

Given the quadratic function f(x)=3x^2-24x+49 a. use “completing the squares” to convert the quadratic function into vertex form b. state the vertex c. find the x and y intercepts d. graph the function

The biologist has a second culture to examine. she knows that the population of the culture doubles every 15 minutes. after 1 hour and 15 minutes, her assistant found that 80,000 bacteria were present. a) what was the size of the initial population? b) predict the size of the culture at t=3 hours. what was the size of the population at 40 minutes? explain and justify your answers. c) create a graph of the population as a function of time. find an equation that can be used to predict the size of the population at any time t. d) examine the rate at which the bacteria culture is growing. how fast is the culture growing after 1 hour? after 1.5 hours? after 2 hours? use a time interval of h = 0.01 hours to estimate these rates. interpret these rates in terms of the context of the problem situation. how do these three rates compare?

Whuch statements about the diagram are true? select all that apply.