Dr. silas studies a culture of bacteria under a microscope. the function b(t)=50(1.4)^t represents the number of bacteria t hours after dr. silas begins her study. what is the y-intercept of the function? what does this mean in the context of the problem? is this exponential growth or decay? how do you know? how many bacteria would there be 5 hours after dr. silas began her study?

(mc 02.03) what set of reflections and rotations would carry rectangle abcd onto itself? reflect over the y-axis, reflect over the x-axis, rotate 180° rotate 180°, reflect over the x-axis, reflect over the line y=x reflect over the x-axis, rotate 180°, reflect over the x-axis rotate 180, reflect over the y-axis, reflect over the line y=x

As voters exit the polls, you ask a representative random sample of voters if they voted for a proposition. if the true percentage of voters who vote for the proposition is 63%, what is the probability that, in your sample, exactly 5 do not voted for the proposition before 2 voted for the proposition? the probability is

Amachine that produces a special type of transistor (a component of computers) has a 2% defective rate. the production is considered a random process where each transistor is independent of the others. (a) what is the probability that the 10th transistor produced is the first with a defect? (b) what is the probability that the machine produces no defective transistors in a batch of 100? (c) on average, how many transistors would you expect to be produced before the first with a defect? what is the standard deviation? (d) another machine that also produces transistors has a 5% defective rate where each transistor is produced independent of the others. on average how many transistors would you expect to be produced with this machine before the first with a defect? what is the standard deviation? (e) based on your answers to parts (c) and (d), how does increasing the probability of an event a↵ect the mean and standard deviation of the wait time until success?