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Item 1

A scientist studied the replication of bacteria in a lab environment. This table gives the bacteria count for the first 12 hours. The table can be modeled using an exponential function.

Hours 2 4 6 8 10 12
Bacteria count 1,240 5,100 20,990 86,520 365,520 1,469,170

What function best represents the data?

y=300+4x
y=1240⋅2.03x
y=4x
y=300⋅2.03x