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A scientist placed some bacteria in a sterile dish of agar. He counted the number of live bacteria at regular intervals afterward. He observed that at first the bacteria grew slowly at first, and then they increased very rapidly in number. Finally, the count leveled off and then declined rapidly as the food supply was used up. A graph of this relationship would be.
 
  a. U-shaped
  b. linear
  c. monotonic
  d. nonmonotonic

Question 2

A curve that never changes direction is called a(n) ________ curve.
 
  a. monotonic
  b. nonmonotonic
  c. U-shaped
  d. inverted


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joneynes

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Reply #1 on: Jun 20, 2018
Answer to Question 1

d

Answer to Question 2

a


KWilfred

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Reply 2 on: Jun 20, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it

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Great answer, keep it coming :)

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