Mathematics

Problem

The population of a certain bacteria culture (in thousands) is

P=200e^{0.05t}

, where

t

is the time in hours. The percentage rate of growth of the population at

t = 10

h is a)

8.2\%\text{ per hour}

0.5\%\text{ per hour}

5\%\text{ per hour}

16.5\%\text{ per hour}