Growth of Bacteria The growth rate of Escherichia coli, a common bacterium found in the human intestine, is proportional to its size. Under ideal laboratory conditions, when this bacterium is grown in a nutrient broth medium, the number of cells in a culture doubles approximately every 30 min. (a) If the initial population is 100, determine the function Q(t) that expresses the growth of the number of cells of this bacterium as a function of time t (in minutes).
