A colony of 1,000 bacteria doubles in population every hour. 1. explain why we can write h=log2x to represent the number of hours, h , it takes for the one thousand bacteria to reach a population of x thousand.
a) Because logarithms help us solve exponential growth equations.
b) Because logarithms simplify complex exponential functions.
c) Because logarithms convert linear equations into exponential ones.
d) Because logarithms are the inverse operations of exponentiation.