A single cell of bacteria is placed with some nutrients in a petri dish as part of an experiment. A researcher notes that the bacterial count in the dish doubles every hour.

Use this information to complete these statements.

this situation represents _
exponential decay
exponential growth

the bacterial count___
increases
decreases

by a rate of ___ % every hour
1
2
50
100
the initial bacterial count is__
1
2
0.5