A population of bacteria can be modeled by the function f(t) = 1000(0,98)", where t represents
the time since the population started decaying, and f (t) represents the population of the
remaining bacteria at time t. What is the rate of decay for this population?
Since there is no information about the units for time, merely stating that the decay rate is 2% will suffice. The decay rate for when r < 1 is found by finding 1-r, so the rate of decay is .02, or 2%.
