hank is studying a population of bacteria and notices that the bacteria population increases by 5% each hour. The function that represents the population of bacteria has a constant percent of change?

Question

This is a TRUE or FALSE question

Answer 1

if P is the population now,

at the end of hour 1, the population will be 1.05P

at the end of hour 2, the population will be (1.05)(1.05P) = (1.05)²P

at the end of hour 3, the population will be (1.05)(1.05)²P = (1.05)³P

and so on......