Question: You inoculate media with 10- cfu of E. coli. You know the lag time is one hour and you know that the doubling time during log phase is 30 minutes. You want to determine the number of cfu six hours after inoculation.
a.) What equation should you use?
b.) How many hours of logarithmic growth were there?
c.) How many cell divisions occurred during the hours of logarithmic growth?
d.) How many cru do you exos after six hours? Show your work.